Forwarded to the list: -----Original Message----- Subject: RE: router startup behavior On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Borchers, Mark wrote: Mark, I don't have nanog post so, if you could pass this along for me, I believe that it may be "obvious" advice and it seems that the obvious is what escapes us most often.
Yeah, (c) seems most likely to me. Ratul, a script like this or some variant could cause what you are seeing:
config-router# no neighbor <a> config-router# no neighbor <b> config-router# no neighbor <c> (script to rewrite filters executes) config-router# neighbor <a> remote-as <x> config-router# neighbor <b> remote-as <y> config-router# neighbor <c> remote-as <z> (sessions start coming up) config-router# neighbor <a> route-map <A> out config-router# neighbor <b> route-map <B> out config-router# neighbor <c> route-map <C> out config-router# Ctrl-Z # clear ip bgp external soft out
Just guessing - you're seeing these events between midnight and 5 am?
Wouldn't it be wiser to do the following: config-router# no neighbor <a> config-router# no neighbor <b> config-router# no neighbor <b> (script to rewrite filters executes) config-router# neighbor <a> remote-as <x> config-router# neighbor <a> shutdown config-router# neighbor <b> remote-as <y> config-router# neighbor <b> shutdown config-router# neighbor <c> remote-as <z> config-router# neighbor <c> shutdown config-router# neighbor <a> route-map <A> out config-router# neighbor <b> route-map <B> out config-router# neighbor <c> route-map <C> out config-router# no neighbor <a> shutdown config-router# no neighbor <b> shutdown config-router# no neighbor <c> shutdown config-router# Ctrl-Z # clear ip bgp external soft out This way, the neighbor has much less time to come up without filters since we're immediately putting it in admin idle after naming it. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc