Re: [GROW] Code nannies (Re: Do you want BGP to extend the message size for all BGP messages or just UPDATES.)

2017-03-09 Thread Nick Hilliard
heasley wrote: > Ignoring support or opposition for the topic of the thread, why should > the ietf concern itself with programming (and testing) incompetency of > this magnitude? The RFCs should document the procedure to negotiate > the capability, not endeavor to design for every possible

[GROW] Code nannies (Re: Do you want BGP to extend the message size for all BGP messages or just UPDATES.)

2017-03-09 Thread heasley
Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 12:20:43PM +, Nick Hilliard: > First, it's not guaranteed > that some badly coded bgp stack wouldn't crash with a 4097 byte OPEN > message, and secondly, you're not guaranteed that just because the stack > supports 4097 bytes on open due to e.g. unintentional coding