[51638] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AT&T NYC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Scalzo)
Tue Sep 3 10:52:57 2002
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:52:58 -0400
From: "Frank Scalzo" <frank.scalzo@amerinex.net>
To: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>, <alex@yuriev.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Since when is BGP a bug-free protocol? Let's not forget the BGP best
path selection algorithm itself is broken (there are circumstances under
which it will NEVER converge on a best path see ietf draft on IDR route
oscillation). Not to mention the various malformed AS-Path bugs which
have shown up over the years. I took a vendor class once where they made
us do a lab where we had to run BGP w/o an IGP, in a later revision of
the class they removed that lab because they decided it was too much of
a nightmare even for a lab environment.
-----Original Message-----
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:39 AM
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: AT&T NYC
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> That is why their route is *nailed* via BGP to the router that
*always*
> provide connectivity to them. If they have to move, BGP injectors are
your
> friends. Takes seconds.
Talking about things that take seconds: would you mind sharing your BGP
hold time values with us?
Iljitsch van Beijnum
