[108733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's with all the long aspaths?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Oct 22 23:17:40 2008
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:17:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <48FFEAF1.8000103@rockynet.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Mike Lewinski wrote:
> I'm sure they get the attention of NOCs around the world as messages like
> this show up on consoles
>
> Oct 22 04:34:05 MDT: %BGP-6-BIGCHUNK: Big chunk pool request (306) for
> aspath. Replenishing with malloc
You might consider something like bgp maxas-limit 75 to exchange that log
message for the less scarey
Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path ...
As an added bonus, you ignore their route while they're playing such
games.
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