That's an excellent point. The 7600 in our scenario does not have dual RPs. The Cisco BU is involved, so I will mention this to them.
Thanks! John On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2013, John Neiberger wrote: > > the 7600, which the CRS immediately recognized, but the CRS continued to >> use those BGP routes until the neighbor's graceful restart timer expired. >> > > It's my experience that Cisco has a GR implemention that leaves some to be > desired on a lot of platforms. I have escalated this several times to no > avail. > > A 7600 will advertise itself as GR capable even if there is a single RP, > and the BU didn't feel the need to implmement "bgp graceful-restart > helper-only" even after several requests. > > So in our network, 7600 have no graceful restart configured. Please talk > to your account team and ask them to talk to the BU and get them to fix > this. > > Desired behaviour: > > On a dual RP system, advertise yourself as GR capable. > On a single RP system, only do GR "helper". > > Either auto detect this or make it configurable. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
