weird BGP cisco-ism?

Matthew Kaufman matthew at scruz.net
Fri Jul 11 00:54:10 UTC 1997


> add a default-metric under router bgp.. I think the source of the
> route in the routing table is changing for some reason and the box is
> conveying the metric as MED...
> 
> --ravi

Did that. It went from advertising it with an MED of 0 to an MED of 20 and
back, to just readvertising it over and over with the fixed default MED
I'd set (1).

The sad thing is that until flap damping code was added, this sort of
bug was masked... but now I have a few dozen customers totally offline.

-matthew





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