The log message is rate limited, so not every received update will generate a 
log. If you send me one of the updates, I can tell you how it’s malformed.

Regards,
Jakob.

> On May 23, 2025, at 04:29, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> You can use the CLI exec command
>> 
>> "show bgp update in error"
>> to display the update and analyze it further.
> 
>    RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:r2.dfw#show bgp update in error detail
> 
>    VRF "default"
>      Malformed Update messages: 19
>      Neighbors that received malformed Update messages: 2
>      Last malformed update received: May 20 07:02:30.421 (2d13h ago)
> 
> there was much more data in the log message
> 
>>> May 20 07:01:51 r2.f00 16869308: RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:May 20 07:01:51.437 : 
>>> bgp[1059]: %ROUTING-BGP-3-MALFORM_UPDATE : Malformed UPDATE message 
>>> received from neighbor 123.45.67.89 (VRF: default) - message length 106 
>>> bytes, error flags 0x000c0000, action taken "DiscardAttr". Error details: 
>>> "Error 0x00040000, Field "Attr-length", Attribute 40 (Flags 0xe0, Length 
>>> 28), Data [e0281c]". NLRIs: [IPv4 Unicast] 45.198.25.0/24
> 
> but the timestamps differ a bit
> 
> randy
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