[129153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Aug 27 23:17:10 2010
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:16:59 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100827191324.GJ1946@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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?
there is a problem underlying this. bgp is not tlv. so once a parser
detects an error, it can not *rigorously* know where to take up again.
randy
