bgp update destroying transit on redback routers ?
Christopher Morrow
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Fri Dec 2 21:06:31 UTC 2011
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Alexandre Snarskii <snar at snar.spb.ru> wrote:
> This draft says that
...note it's a DRAFT, not a STANDARD...
>
> If a BGP speaker receives a route which has an AS number of zero in the
> AS_PATH (or AS4_PATH) attribute, it SHOULD be logged and treated as a
> WITHDRAW. This same behavior applies to routes containing zero as the
> Aggregator or AS4 Aggregator.
>
> but observed behaviour was more like following:
>
> If a BGP speaker receives [bad route] it MUST close session immediately
> with NOTIFICATION Error Code 'Update Message Error' and subcode 'Error with
> optional attribute'.
hence this old behavor
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