[31602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 64 Megs of Memory...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (scott w)
Fri Sep 29 19:06:52 2000
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:06:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: scott w <scott@digisle.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
Cc: "Segal, Mark" <Mark.Segal@Corp.Axxent.Ca>, nanog@merit.edu
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The session wasn't lost. Set it to warn you well before killing the
session.
scott
ps. It wasn't Sprint...
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 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
>
