Re: Global BGP - 2001-06-23

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:38:32PM -0700, lucifer () lightbearer com wrote:
> Can anyone verify whether Cisco still does BGP this way? (Propagate, then
> kill origionating session). If so, it rather clearly answers the question
> about how this managed to make it throughout the network...

        I'm fairly sure that is not the case anymore.

> (For the record: I'm not trying to Cisco-bash here. All vendors have
> problems, and when you have a huge market share, your problems tend to
> show up much more obviously, when they appear. However, Cisco does still
> have a huge market share, meaning this affected a whole lot of people,
> if true... so, I'm curious).

        From what I can tell this time it was not ciscos fault.  It
appears that the vendor that had the problem just had an issue with
a specific "valid" announcement that others propogated to it.

        What is interesting is one could use this to see what
providers are using vendor "X" at exchange points.

        - Jared

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