Re: Did your BGP crash today?

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Clay Fiske <clay () bloomcounty org> wrote:

> On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> > That works fine for malformed attributes.  It blows chunks for legally
> > formed but unknown attributes - how would you ever deploy a new
> > attribute?
>
> By making it optional. Seems to me that's pretty well covered by the Path
> Attributes section of the RFC.
>
> A bad attribute isn't simply unknown, it's malformed. My apologies for
> not wording that more precisely.
>
> I do see the wisdom of fine-grained control of this behavior. I'm just
> saying, it'd be nice if we could have correct behavior on the basics in
> the first place. :)

As an aside, I see that Cisco has released a late Friday afternoon security
advisory on this issue:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20100827-bgp.shtml

FYI,

- - ferg

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