[129128] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Fri Aug 27 15:13:38 2010
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:13:24 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <C233D218-B073-45B0-A792-F2D4395FDF47@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
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> Unknown BGP attribute 99 (flags: 240)
> Unknown BGP attribute 99 (flags: 240)
> Unknown BGP attribute 99 (flags: 240)
> Unknown BGP attribute 99 (flags: 240)
> Unknown BGP attribute 99 (flags: 240)
Just out of curiosity, at what point will we as operators rise up
against the ivory tower protocol designers at the IETF and demand that
they add a mechanism to not bring down the entire BGP session because of
a single malformed attribute? Did I miss the memo about the meeting?
I'll bring the punch and pie.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
