[28909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: That pesky AS path corruption bug...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Tue May 23 16:06:10 2000
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Dampening reduces negative effects, but there's still a potential for
> serious service disruption: processing a ton of new updates ties up CPU
> resources which in case of OFRV software can easily cause timer
> expiration on BGP sessions of peers border routers.
Set rwnd to 0 if you are temporarily resource constrained. If you are
constrained on a normal basis, upgrade.
> I do not think that deliberately breaking things just to attract attention
> of the management is a good idea. If some vendor ignores bug reports, go
> to a different vendor :)
Ah yes.... Layer 8 is always a problem.
/vijay
