slowing down every 60 seconds due to BGP scaner

Fri Sep 14 21:25:24 UTC 2001

Marshall Eubanks <tme at 21rst-century.com> writes:

> "Robert E. Seastrom" wrote:
> 
> > "David McGaugh" <david_mcgaugh at eli.net> writes:
> >
> > > We've brought this concern up to Cisco before and they assured us that
> > > everything is performing normally. You will see this when performing
> > > router to router pings as well however, we have been told that packet
> > > forwarding does not suffer. ICMP replies from the router (not through
> > > the router) are given a very low CPU priority.
> >
> > Seconded.  Ping response times or lack of ping response from routers
> > signifies *nothing*.  Ditto for traceroutes, &c.  Ping *through* the
> > router, not *to* the router.
> 
> We do streaming, and this causes a freeze up both in and out bound.
> In bound there seem to be losses. Outbound all is buffered and nothing is
> lost.

pinging the router causes a freeze-up?  or the router is freezing up
on bgp updates every n seconds?  platform/release ?

                                        ---rob