[45052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: router startup behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Mon Jan 14 16:06:22 2002
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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:40:49 PST."
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:05:50 -0800
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>
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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.
draft-ietf-idr-restart-01.txt describes a way to do this (to find out
when a peer has sent all the routes it has to send to you).
yakov.
