Peer sessions changed and lose

Fri Sep 23 21:54:41 UTC 1994

Hmm.  I don't think anything changed on this end.  None of the AS 2699 
peering information changed in the E 144 or E 145 gated.conf files with
this morning's update.  I just checked.

  --Steve W.

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 >To: MAP=Urgent at nic.dsi.net
 >cc: skw at merit.edu, nwg at merit.edu, dsi-ops at dsi.net, dsi-routing at dsi.net
 >Subject: Re: Peer sessions changed and lose 
 >Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 15:41:59 -0400
 >From: "Steven J. Richardson" <sjr at merit.edu>
 >
 >Michael:
 >
 >  I'm a little perplexed; it seems that the outbound metric for our peering
 >with AS 2699 has been 127 since at least 24 May (when I switched to peering
 >directly with AS 2699, instead of the two fake ASs).
 >
 >  I'm not aware of any change with the handling of the backbone route, and
 >the gated binaries on the machines in question have not changed (see below).
 >
 >Steve W.:
 >
 >  Do you know of any change which would have affected this?
 >
 >  (The gated binaries on ENSSs 144 and 145 have not been changed in some
 >time, so...?)
 >
 >  Is 2699 now beering with EBGP as well as EGP (are there new sessions)?
 >
 >  Thanks,
 >
 >
 >  Steve R.
 >  > Date:  Fri, 23 Sep 1994 15:01:19 EDT
 >  > From:  "Michael A. Patton" <MAP at BBN.COM>
 >  > To:    skw at merit.edu, sjr at merit.edu
 >  > CC:    nwg at merit.edu, dsi-ops at dsi.net, dsi-routing at dsi.net
 >
 >  > Steves: (I can never quite remember which of you is which :-)
 >  > 
 >  > Sometime during the night (I assume when the most recent update was
 >  > done), the NSFnet peer sessions with the DSI changed.  Specifically,
 >  > the metric for 140.222 is now 127.  This value prevents us from
 >  > readvertising that number to any of our customer sites.  Several of
 >  > them are multi-homed and use that advertisement in doing their default
 >  > route selection.  Since, for that reason, it only affects customers
 >  > who have alternate paths, it is not critical, but we would appreciate
 >  > if you could correct it at your earliest convenience.
 >  > 
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