Re: That pesky AS path corruption bug...

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

Vijay Gill <wrath () cs umbc edu> wrote:

> This is what BGP dampening is for.  Dropping a few prefixes here and there
> is a good way to make operational debugging of a network of any size,
> hell.

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.

> With a NOTIFY and a drop, there is a definite positive feedback that
> something is majorly wrong and allows people to open top level cases with
> vendors.

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 :)

--vadim