[3253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Withdrawls and announcements attempt 2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Fri Jun 21 13:01:12 1996
To: Sean Doran <smd@icp.net>
cc: justin@erols.com, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jun 1996 11:20:18 BST."
<96Jun21.112023+0100_edt.20689+60@chops.icp.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:51:13 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <96Jun21.112023+0100_edt.20689+60@chops.icp.net>, Sean Doran writes:
> Keeping track of the state of who got announced what is likely
> to be a very very very bad idea for busy BGP talkers carrying
> today's amount of NLRI and instability.
>
> There are some hacks around the simplistic "if it's in my RIB,
> I have to propagate withdrawals to all my neighbours" for some
> cases, but a more comprehensive fix would require some Thinking.
>
> This should probably get migrated over to the BGP list.
>
> Sean.
Its a solved problem, solved in gated more than 2 years ago. Dennis
did some real good work in that area. No need to continue on any
list.
Curtis
