[6bone] Instability incarnate

Gert Doering gert@space.net
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:42:25 +0200


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:16:33PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
>  neighbor xx:xx::x remove-private-AS
> 
> This command is YOUR FRIEND!

Not really.  It means that you see instabilities and don't even know which
AS was causing them.

A much better approach would be to immediately stop running BGP with
anything that uses a private or illegal AS number.  If they want 
connectivity, statically route them a /48.

Gert Doering
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