Thanks Alvaro !

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:02 AM Alvaro Retana <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On January 4, 2022 at 10:44:35 AM, Gyan Mishra wrote:
>
> Gyan:
>
>
> ...
> > > All capabilities are signaled in the OPEN, so there's no possibility
> > > for receiving a Role Capability afterwards.
> >
> > Gyan> Agreed. The multiple capabilities received is mentioned in the
> text,
> > Gyan> however as it’s signaled in the open how would multiple
> capabilities
> > Gyan> be received. As the role capabilities are sent in the open , how
> can
> > Gyan> the possibility of multiple capabilities occur?
>
> The OPEN can include multiple instances of the same capability.  This
> is from rfc5492:
>
>    BGP speakers SHOULD NOT include more than one instance of a
>    capability with the same Capability Code, Capability Length, and
>    Capability Value.  Note, however, that processing of multiple
>    instances of such capability does not require special handling, as
>    additional instances do not change the meaning of the announced
>    capability; thus, a BGP speaker MUST be prepared to accept such
>    multiple instances.
>
>    BGP speakers MAY include more than one instance of a capability (as
>    identified by the Capability Code) with non-zero Capability Length
>    field, but with different Capability Value and either the same or
>    different Capability Length.  Processing of these capability
>    instances is specific to the Capability Code and MUST be described in
>    the document introducing the new capability.
>
>
> Alvaro.
>
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