Thanks for your help both! I am now only announcing the correct things.
I'll go and have a word with myself now :p Enjoy the rest of the weekend, Lee -----Original Message----- From: Shane Ronan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 05/07/2008 20:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lee Hetherington; [email protected] Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Odd BGP Issue Or maybe they wouldn't be upset if you were providing a reliable link between two previously un-peered AS's. On Jul 5, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Scott Morris wrote: > HA! You are correct that they SHOULDN'T accept that from you, > but.... Best > ideas are not always implemented. :) Just make sure you have a > reject at > the end of your export policy to then and it'll be much better then! > > Otherwise, enjoy making their route table a bit mental, but if it's > the same > AS you're peering with over two links you really aren't messing up > the whole > world, so nothing huge! More people would be reacting and upset > with you if > you were transiting between two DIFFERENT ASNs! (smirk) > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Hetherington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 3:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [j-nsp] Odd BGP Issue > > Thanks Scott... > > I am peering with interface addresses... > > I have specific export statements which export a particular filter > list, > which only includes a /23 of addresses. For some reason when > showing what I > am advertising to AS1200 i'm announcing the full route table. I am > surprised an ISP would accept such routes from me, I expect their > network is > going a bit mental every time I fire up the session again. > > Lee > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 05/07/2008 20:02 > To: Lee Hetherington; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [j-nsp] Odd BGP Issue > > I've seen this type of thing before with the random dropping and > "hold time > exceeded" message when a routing loop has been introduced. > > Are you peering to a loopback on your peer's router, or to the > directly > connected physical link? Watch to be sure you aren't learning > through BGP > the connected links or loopback interfaces you are connecting to as > this may > be causing some issues. > > Do you have traceoptions on your bgp sessions at all? Perhaps that > could > give you better details as the routes all come in and your router > tries to > sort things all out, something is irritating it, so perhaps it will > tell you > why! > > BGP sorts a number of things out with its series of bestpath selection > algorithms, but if you have done anything else to modify these or just > exactly how/where bgp fits into the rest of your routing scenario > it may > cause issues. > > HTH, > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee > Hetherington > Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [j-nsp] Odd BGP Issue > > Hi All, > > I have a very odd problem with a J Series router and wonder if > anyone can > help, as neither our providers nor JTAC can shed any light on this > one. > > We have a J2320-JH, it has a Link to AS1200 over a 2meg serial x.21 > connection and then a 100meg connection to AS1299 over ethernet. I > have bgp > from our as accepting ANY from them and announcing a single /23 > network to > them. > > My original 2meg connection has been stable and running a BGP > session with > no flapping for almost 3 weeks now. As soon as I introduce the new > peer, > the route table increases as you'd expect to around 500k routes, > becomes > stable with 245k active routes and then the originally stable > connection > starts to flap giving a Hold Timer Expired Error. This then keeps > flapping. > > Whilst this first session is flapping there are no errors on the > interfaces > to either AS1200 or AS1299. However, whilst the session is > flapping I note > that almost exactly 1mbits/sec is going out of our new AS1299 > connection and > comming into our AS1200 connection. This traffic however does not > come onto > our LAN as the gig connection to our switch is showing none or very > minimal > traffic. > > The guys at AS1200 havent got back to me yet, but the guys from > AS1299 have > told me to check my prefix-limit, but I dont currently have this > configured. > JTAC tell me my router is fine and my configuration is correct. > > Anyone have an idea? The providers seem to be stumped but this > leaves me > with one peer disabled currently. > > Thanks, > > Lee > > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by > REDScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by REDScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp

