[42540] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What Worked - What Didn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Sep 17 17:30:02 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:53:43 -0700
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>> how many folk even have md5 auth turned on their bgp peering sessions?
> How much kerosine can MD5 withstand exactly?
folk may want to read rfc 2385. better measures would likely be
appreciated.
> When a BGP router loses power, it takes minutes for the peer on the
> other side of the connection to notice something is wrong and reroute
> the traffic.
as i do not see this in rfc 1771 or draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-1[23].txt, i
suspect that this is implementation specific.
randy
