[6bone] MRTD BGP withdrawal bug

Michel Py michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:11:59 -0700


> Robert Kiessling wrote:
> From looking at BGP view before and after an router running
> MRTd. The AS in question annonced a path like "AS-guilty
> AS-other some-long-path", while AS-other has a different path
> for the prefix in question. I saw this for the same AS-guilty
> and different AS-others.

This is consistent with what was observed before, indeed.


>> So far, my feeling is that the issue has been solved by "let's reboot
>> the router and see what happens" method.

> Right, but that's not an acceptable long-term solution. IMHO
> either AS-guilty fixes the problem,

> or their peers have to fix it for them.

This is not an acceptable long-term solution either.

So what can we do? Even if we declare MRTd illegal, enforcing it would
be another story. I vaguely tried to define a generic route-map for
these with no success either.

Michel.