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Re: 64 Megs of Memory...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri Sep 29 18:55:42 2000

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:59:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: scott w <scott@digisle.net>
Cc: "Segal, Mark" <Mark.Segal@Corp.Axxent.Ca>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, scott w wrote:
> Saw more than that from one of the big boys today. 
> %BGP-4-MAXPFX: Number of unicast prefixes received from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> reaches 96857

sprint does this to us every few weeks. never seen it from any of our
other links.

> "neighbor xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx maximim-prefix" is your friend...  ;-)

maximum-prefix sucks because it kills your session, but sucks less than
killing the entire bgp router process. i wish there was an option to simply
drop announcements over the limit rather than killing the session.

-Dan



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