Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-08 Thread Per Gregers Bilse
On Nov 8, 2:39pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > holdtime-and-a-bit seconds. [Aside: shouldn't the session be refused at > startup if a mutually agreeable keepalive value can't be negotiated rather > than being allowed to flap like this?] Junipers seem to be slightly in the wrong here. A hold tim

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-08 Thread James Aldridge
NetSecGuy wrote: > I understand AS is RIS itself, is this some kind of misconfig on their > end? It seems to be announcing it's entire table every 5 minutes. This > started late Friday and ended a few hours ago. FYI, AS is the RIPE NCC's production AS; the RIS project uses AS12654. There

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-07 Thread Blaine Christian
On Nov 7, 2005, at 8:32 AM, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: At 9:44 AM -1000 11/6/05, Randy Bush wrote: > A peer should never announce a route it has already announced unless that route is withdrawn. one of many counterexamples: change in igp will cause change in med. any attribute changes

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 9:44 AM -1000 11/6/05, Randy Bush wrote: > A peer should never announce a route it has already announced unless that route is withdrawn. one of many counterexamples: change in igp will cause change in med. any attribute changes, and announcement is required. e.g., an internal igp oscil

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-06 Thread Randy Bush
> A peer should never announce a route it has already announced unless > that route is withdrawn. one of many counterexamples: change in igp will cause change in med. any attribute changes, and announcement is required. e.g., an internal igp oscillation could cause what the op describes. ran

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-06 Thread Tony Li
I understand BGP flapping to be announcements followed by withdraws over a short period. I am seeing a peer with a large number of announcements and the normal number of withdraws. Is there a term to describe what I am seeing? I'd like to understand what is happening, but I've been loo

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-06 Thread NetSecGuy
At the risk of sounding like a total moron, can anyone explain what is happening here?  This is from RIS, specifically RRC00.  Here is some sample output of route_btoa from this file: http://data.ris.ripe.net/rrc00/2005.11/updates.20051106.0430.gz BGP4MP|1131251415|STATE|193.0.0.56||1|2 BGP4

Re: BGP terminology question

2005-11-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 6, 2005, at 1:05 PM, NetSecGuy wrote: I asked this question on inet-access and it was suggested I try NANOG. I understand BGP flapping to be announcements followed by withdraws over a short period. I am seeing a peer with a large number of announcements and the normal number of wit

BGP terminology question

2005-11-06 Thread NetSecGuy
I asked this question on inet-access and it was suggested I try NANOG. I understand BGP flapping to be announcements followed by withdraws over a short period.  I am seeing a peer with a large number of announcements and the normal number of withdraws.  Is there a term to describe what I am seeing