Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-16 Thread Adam Vitkovsky
Do you folks experience this only in scenarios without backup please? My understanding is that this should not be happening if the prefixes are maintained in the FIB by means of switching from backup NH back to primary NH But I recognize it is a problem even with a single NH I'm thinking if the

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread heasley
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:08:18PM +0300, Saku Ytti: > Hey Octavio, > > > We are noticing our ASR 1002 is propagating BGP-learned routes to its > > neighbors after the path is chosen but before the route gets installed > > in the FIB. > > > > With the increasing size of the BGP table, this is

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread John East
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: > Hello. > > We are noticing our ASR 1002 is propagating BGP-learned routes to its > neighbors after the path is chosen but before the route gets installed > in the FIB. > > With the increasing size of the BGP table,

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
One is never too precautious I guess ;-) Y. > Le 15 sept. 2016 à 14:15, Gert Doering a écrit : > > Hi, > >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:08:18PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote: >> I don't think so. This is issue which has plagued Juniper RPD for years. >> >> Technically I

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 04:47:28PM +0200, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr wrote: > One is never too precautious I guess ;-) Well... people tell me I shouldn't enable stuff I do not need - in this case, on IOS XR 4.3.4 on ASR9001, this can lead to "the FIB process deadlocks", and subsequently BGP

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread Lukas Tribus
Hi, > I've personally not seen this yet (in bothersome level) in any Cisco > gear, so this is very interesting observation, I sort of assumed what > every Cisco is doing, they're doing in manner that they are protected > from this problem. Thanks for the heads up! This definitely is a problem.

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:08:18PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote: > I don't think so. This is issue which has plagued Juniper RPD for years. > > Technically I believe fix would be to add flag to FIB entries > signalling HW presence. Then when HW installs it, it should raise > interrupt or such, to

Re: [c-nsp] Forcing BGP to propagate only after route is in the FIB

2016-09-15 Thread Saku Ytti
Hey Octavio, > We are noticing our ASR 1002 is propagating BGP-learned routes to its > neighbors after the path is chosen but before the route gets installed > in the FIB. > > With the increasing size of the BGP table, this is causing race > conditions that turn into traffic loops during