lcrosby@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Linda J. Crosby) (05/03/91)
Reference msg from Benzi Misrahi, 25 Apr. Problem is also occurring with EGP. When we installed 8.2(3) we could no longer communicate with our EGP neighbor gateways, thus losing all routing information! After several hours phone hassle, a Cisco technician finally found a reference somewhere that showed this problem was known. Unfortunately, there will be no fix forthcoming until after the 1st of June. Our solution was to yank the update, and return to v. 8.1(19). Linda J. Crosby Technical Liaison USAMC SIMA <LCROSBY@ST-LOUIS-EMH2.ARMY.MIL> <LCROSBY@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
Tony Li <tli@cisco.com> (05/03/91)
Linda, The problem that Benzi Mishrahi found is independent of your EGP problem. The EGP problem is an interoperability problem with the Milnet cores and is critical only for Milnet sites. The symptom is that we will reach the DOWN state but never transition to the UP state. The fix for this problem will be available in 8.2(4). If this is an emergency, I will be happy to provide you with a beta image that you can netboot or beta ROMs. Tony Li
lcrosby@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Linda J. Crosby) (05/04/91)
Tony, "beta image"? ... no thank you! We've had enough problems the last 72 hrs. We'll wait until the actual 8.2(4) ver. is released; and check for any additional bugs before installing it! If the EGP problem is not the same as the BGP problem; I would very much like to know what the BGP problem is. Since there is talk of transitioning MILNET to BGP; we need to know about it too. Linda J. Crosby Technical Liaison USAMC SIMA <LCROSBY@ST-LOUIS-EMH2.ARMY.MIL> <LCROSBY@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL>
tli@cisco.com (Tony Li) (05/04/91)
If the EGP problem is not the same as the BGP problem; I would very much like to know what the BGP problem is. Since there is talk of transitioning MILNET to BGP; we need to know about it too. The BGP bug is a much more subtle design flaw. Suppose that you learn about a route through an external BGP session and that this route is redistributed via IGRP as a default network. Other BGP speakers in the AS will discard the IGRP information and also discard the designation of it being a default network. Clearly IGP information needs to supersede internal BGP information for internal routing decisions. We are still discussing what the correct behavior should be. Tony