[45051] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: router startup behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jan 14 15:41:28 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:40:49 -0800
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> a fix might be to not advertise any routes to a BGP peer until you
> receive all the routes that peer has to send you.
that will *greatly* reduce the garbage in the global routing table. to
zero, in fact.
and, of course, we can not know when a peer has sent all the routes it
has to send to you.
randy
