On Tue, 23 May 2000, Blaine Christian wrote:
After observing a recent issue regarding a router that sent corrupted AS path (all names are witheld to protect the guilty). I took a look at the path information that was being received and have a possible solution. Since the corrupted AS-path does not include the AS that the route is coming from (at least in the corruption that I saw) it seems to me that a simple solution for all is to filter on AS i.e. only allow routes that have the AS of your EBGP neighbor prepended to them. I realize this does not cover all cases of wacky AS corruption problems but it may fix some of
This is a hack. We do not need more cruft added on, rather, what we need is correct behavior. The correct behavior being - if you see a corrupt/ a malformed update from a peer, send a notify and drop the session. Seems fairly simple to me. The above suggestion of your fails in case of route servers. Insist on correct behavior, not on cruftery. /vijay