Strange BGP announcement

Fri Nov 13 20:38:41 UTC 1998

> Yep, an invalid as-path attribute was injected from somewhere. Our as-path
> sanity check code failed to catch this case.

thank you for this nice code, which caused our gated to crash...
Where may i send my bill to :-)))

>
> We have opened the following ddts:
>
> ======
> Bug ID   : CSCdk63586          Project: CSC.sys        Status : O
>      3 encls
> Product  : all                 Found  : customer-use   Care Update: N
> Versions : 11.1CC
> Headline : BGP: Tighten as-path sanity check

fine to see, that it is corrected in  12.0(2)S. This will be another reason
for
cisco to force everybody to throw away 11.1.X up to 11.3.X....

Winfried

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