problem at mae-west tonight?

Robert Bowman rob at elite.exodus.net
Mon Jul 15 03:40:34 UTC 1996


We experienced the same thing with Netcom.  Currently we are peered with over
40 netwroks through the RS, but I have only had this problem with Netcom.

Is it really a next-hop problem or a Netcom internal problem?  Last time
this happened, about 2 weeks ago, they cleared their RA session and did
some other things and everything came up fine.  I did not get details from
the routing folks over there.

I don't quite see how and where the layer 2 topology comes into play here.
Netcom should simply be seeing routes (through the RS) that state your MW
IP address and the routes advertised from it.  Is there some reason that your MW
IP would be unreachable by Netcom?  I am confused as to why this would ever
happen in the MW scenario.  Now the PB-NAP is a different story with the
non-fully meshed scenario.

Please explain what you mean Matt.

Rob
Exodus Communications Inc.
> 
> >  The problem I have with the route server this evening is that I announce
> > my routes to the route server, and my policy configuration in the route server
> > reflects that I peer with Netcom, and so the route server tells Netcom how
> > to reach me. Unfortunately, packets leaving Netcom headed to me at layer 2
> > are going into a black hole. To fix this, I've had to dump my peering with
> > the route server entirely, so that Netcom is only seeing my routes from AGIS
> > (our transit provider) and not from the route server. Ugh. My fears about
> > the route server not knowing the status of the layer 2 topology have come true,
> > and there's no way to fix this that doesn't involve manual intervention.
> > 
> > -matthew kaufman
> >  matthew at scruz.net
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well, I run gated on a BSDI box for the Hooked MAE West router.  I'm
> thinking about implementing a "pingnouse INTERVAL" option on the
> peer/group commands in gated, so it will periodically ping next hops
> received from the route servers and set the nouse bit if the nexthop
> is unreachable.  Any better ideas?
> 
> It would be nice to come up with a good mechanism for doing 3rd party
> keepalives that cisco and other router vendors would be willing to
> implement.
> 
> Rob
> 






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