[45057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: router startup behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Donner)
Mon Jan 14 17:52:51 2002
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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:50:35 -0500
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Paul Donner <pdonner@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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And how long do you think convergence would take in this case?
At 03:58 PM 1/14/2002, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:40:49 PST, Randy Bush said:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > and, of course, we can not know when a peer has sent all the routes it
> > has to send to you.
>
>Well, wait till it sends you the FIRST route, and then wait a fixed amount
>of time for it to finish babbling. Figuring out how long the OTHER end will
>wait for you to finish babbling before sending the first route is left as
>a trivial excersize... ;)
>--
> Valdis Kletnieks
> Computer Systems Senior Engineer
> Virginia Tech
>
>
