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Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?
From: Brian Landers <brian () bluecoat93 org>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:10:40 -0800
The Juniper PR in question is actually 836197. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>wrote:
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Jonathan Towne <jtowne () slic com> wrote:On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:57:06AM -0500, Alex Rubenstein scribbled: # The question should be more along the lines of, "why aren't youmultihomed in a way that would make a 30 minute outage (which is inevitable) irrelevant to you?The fun part of this emergency maintenance in the northeast USA was thatevenfolks who are multihomed felt it: Level3 managed to do this in a way that kept BGP sessions up but killed the ability to actually pass traffic.I'm notsure what they did that caused this, or whether anyone but northeastfolkswere affected by it, but it sure was neat to be effectively blackholedin andout of one of your provided circuits for a while.I recommend you grab http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2013.02.05-NANOG57-day2-afternoon-session.txt and search for PR8361907 Richard did a very good lightning talk about why Juniper boxes will bring up BGP but blackhole traffic for 30 minutes to over an hour, depending on number of BGP sessions it is handling. His recommendation--if you don't like it, go tell Juniper to fix that bug. Matt
-- Brian C Landers http://www.packetslave.com/ CCIE #23115 (R&S + Security)
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- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?, (continued)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? JP Viljoen (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 06)
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- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? james jones (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? JP Viljoen (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Peter Ehiwe (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Jared Mauch (Feb 06)
- RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Alex Rubenstein (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Jonathan Towne (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Matthew Petach (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Brian Landers (Feb 07)
- RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Simon Allard (Feb 10)
- RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Simon Allard (Feb 10)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Jared Mauch (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Jared Mauch (Feb 06)
- RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Alex Rubenstein (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Alexander Maassen (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Andrew Sullivan (Feb 06)
- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? Ray Wong (Feb 06)
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- Re: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade? PC (Feb 06)
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