On 26 Jun 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
There will always be cases where Vender A thinks they are correct and Vendor B thinks they are correct, and they differ. And you are correct, either the sender has done something wrong or the receiver has done something wrong, hence the Internet motto.
But there there should be no room for debate, one side is right and the other side is wrong. If there is really a grey area, the solution is to fix the wording of the standards document, not to try and overlook the problem. I agree that in this case it is possible to have ignored the bad AS PATH and drop the route without disturbing the session originating the bad information. This is one specific example could probably have been handled better with a non-fatal notification (with big red lights and buzzers). However, it was unacceptable for that router to propagate the bad information to others. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)