[3450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing flaps, was Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Fri Jul 12 17:27:37 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 14:22:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
cc: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960712095332.19721A-100000@IMgate.iMach.com>
On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
==>If the line between routers A&C or B&D or between either C or D and their
==>respective static downstreams die, there should be NO external route
==>flap. However, if C&D are incapable of 'Null0' routing, it may be
==>beneficial to run dynamic routing between A&C and between B&D so that
==>A&B discard packets instead of causing a routing loop. This "internal
==>routing flap" should not be visible to the outside world.
It can be, though. Or at least from what I've seen.
If you have a 'floating static' to null0, it won't take over until the
dynamic holddown timer expires (whatever it happens to be for the
particular IGP you're using).
For example, a situation like this:
Router A <----> Router B <----> TermServ (with ISDN)<--DIAL-UP-LINK-->Router C
Router A is the access-point router doing BGP. The customer on router C
has a set of addresses assigned "way-back-when" by the InterNIC, and
router A is advertising that set via BGP.
Routing is done between A & B using OSPF. The LAN between B & TermServ is
running RIP (because certain manufacturers' boxen can't do anything BUT
RIP).
The organization is designed in such a way that their static dial-up
address is portable among all POPs in their provider (so the B & TermServ
could be in any of their POPs).
Router A has a static route to null0 to hold the BGP route in place. When
router C is dialed up and present, the route gets propogated from TermServ
to B via RIP, which redists into the OSPF area. Router A picks up this
route via OSPF.
The dynamically-learned route for customer 'C' now takes precedence over
the static route to null0 on A.
If for some reason, C drops the dial-in links and the TermServ goes
through a few RIP update cycles, the route will be marked as
'inaccessible', but will still be in the routing table until hold-down
expires. When this route is marked as 'inaccessible', the static route
does not take precedence and the route is withdrawn from BGP--and
consequently re-introduced when the hold-down expires and the null0 route
takes precedence.
Now, if there's something in the config of router A that can be used that
will prevent this flapping, or if it was just a freak coincidence that
routers saw a flap after dropping the connection, then please correct me.
/cah
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