On Jan 3, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Also, if you're seeing some problem, I'm sure that some other set of
>> people out there will be seeing it as well.  The shared pain/cost will
>> exist.  If you can't take the risk of speaking BGP, have your ISP send you
>> default (or nothing) and advert your prefixes and call it a day.
> 
> There may be no shared pain if you are using BGP only within your
> datacenter network.  This is precisely why I provided the RainbowPoop
> scenario.  This is not your 1990s BGP anymore.  Anyone who has MPLS
> VPNs signaled using BGP already knows this but maybe isn't cognizant
> of it in this context.
> 
> You continue to make this argument that breaking your network so you
> notice a problem is good.  I would like to have the option to notice
> the problem by actually parsing my syslogs and NOT having my network
> break and cost me and customers a bunch of money.  That's not what I
> would really do, though.  I would just re-actively configure
> ignore-bad-messages if I needed to.  Because I agree with you, I would
> like BGP to flap if something unexpected happens.  However, I might
> need to stop it from flapping to remain in business.

Oh, I understand all these use-cases, but there is a case for a well-designed 
network not always sharing/mixing the NLRI.  eg: We don't transport v4 NLRI in 
v6 transport, nor v6 NLRI in v4 transport.  If you have a single session with 
massive shared fate, perhaps it's not a protocol design error but a network 
design error.

- Jared
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