Re: 128/9 cite

On 6/8/23 04:16, Randy Bush wrote: thanks aftab i remember a bit more. the hidden command was there to help debug CEF, which was new at the time. the CEFlapods wanted a large blob of prefixes to push the FIB. it kinda pushed the operational FIBs a bit too far :) Was this in lieu of flow

Re: 128/9 cite

On 6/7/23 10:13 PM, Aftab Siddiqui wrote: I definitely read a detailed research paper about that incident long ago but can't find any link with any search keywords. But here is the NANOG archive. https://archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/1997-10/msg00095.html

Re: 128/9 cite

thanks aftab i remember a bit more. the hidden command was there to help debug CEF, which was new at the time. the CEFlapods wanted a large blob of prefixes to push the FIB. it kinda pushed the operational FIBs a bit too far :) randy

Re: 128/9 cite

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 02:15, Randy Bush wrote: > doug madory is asking me for a cite for the exciting 1997/8 128/9 bgp > event. my memory as reported to doug is > > soon after the 7007 incident, an engineer in a UUNET lab, not > realizing they were connected to the real internet, used