Re: That pesky AS path corruption bug...

[Vijay Gill <wrath () cs umbc edu>]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Vadim Antonov wrote:

> Dampening reduces negative effects, but there's still a potential for
> serious service disruption: processing a ton of new updates ties up CPU
> resources which in case of OFRV software can easily cause timer
> expiration on BGP sessions of peers border routers. 

Set rwnd to 0 if you are temporarily resource constrained.  If you are
constrained on a normal basis, upgrade. 


> I do not think that deliberately breaking things just to attract attention
> of the management is a good idea.  If some vendor ignores bug reports, go
> to a different vendor :)

Ah yes.... Layer 8 is always a problem.

/vijay