1 Oct
2021
1 Oct
'21
9:37 a.m.
On 16/02/2021 22:51, Compton, Rich A wrote:
There was the outage in 2014 when we got to 512K routes. http://www.bgpmon.net/what-caused-todays-internet-hiccup/
There was a similar issue in 1998/9 or so when we got to 64K routes, which broke the routing table index (which defaulted to a uint16_t) on any FreeBSD box doing BGP. Fortunately a quick kernel recompile with the type changed to uint32_t fixed that. Ray