[129219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did your BGP crash today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Aug 29 23:41:41 2010
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:41:35 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: James Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin5X7aGNRPhbDpusdwn46VsrbTeKq3FJ1YpQxkB@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Every BGP message header has a portion that starts with 16
> all-bits-1 octets, for compatibility.
> This is distinctive enough an implementation can guess where the next
> message starts.
i desperately feared reading this. i do not want to bet the internet on
guessing where anythings starts.
randy
