Re: RFC 1771, further thoughts

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Tue, 26 June 2001, lucifer () lightbearer com wrote:
> In an attempt to return to an argument, rather than simple contradiction
> (ok, ok, it's far more polite and reasonable so far than that would imply,
> but I couldn't miss the cheap shot; apologies hereby tendered), perhaps we
> should consider *what* the RFC should say, if it should be changed? Going
> to the WG with a proposal in hand and a rationale to support it would seem
> to be the best path.

One problem which makes the current practice worse in practice is the
cycling of the BGP session.  Once you decide a BGP peer is "insane" why
start a fresh BGP session with the same peer, only to have them send the
same "bad" information again, and again, and again, and again.

If folks want to isolate misbehaving peers, do an ADMIN SHUTDOWN on the
session.