What Worked - What Didn't

Mon Sep 17 20:53:43 UTC 2001

>> how many folk even have md5 auth turned on their bgp peering sessions?
> How much kerosine can MD5 withstand exactly?

folk may want to read rfc 2385.  better measures would likely be
appreciated.

> When a BGP router loses power, it takes minutes for the peer on the
> other side of the connection to notice something is wrong and reroute
> the traffic.

as i do not see this in rfc 1771 or draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-1[23].txt, i
suspect that this is implementation specific.

randy