Le 03/01/2013 20:36, Enke Chen a écrit :
> hi, Jeff:
>
> On 1/3/13 11:22 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>>> Respectfully, I think you're misunderstanding my position completely.  My 
>>> point is that a reasonable implementation cannot possibly live up to the 
>>> expectations that you're setting up here.  To be specific, once an 
>>> implementation loses the syntactic parsing of the data stream, 
>>> realistically, the session is corrupt and an eventual reset is inevitable.  
>>> Or, in other words, BGP cannot possible ignore bad messages.  That's not 
>>> the way it works.
>> Of course BGP can ignore bad messages.  To say otherwise is simply
>> telling a lie because you haven't made a good argument.
>>
>>
>
> A good argument (IMO) has been made in the error handling draft:
>
> ---------
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-error-handling/
>
> 4. Operational Considerations
>    Note that "treat-as-withdraw" is different from discarding an UPDATE
>    message.  The latter violates the basic BGP principle of incremental
>    update, and could cause invalid routes to be kept.  (See also
>    Appendix A.)
> ---------


+1

mh

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> -- Enke
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