Re: RFC1771

[Paul Knight <[e-mail]>]

Yes, this is certainly a mistake, since it occurs in the section
discussing the connect state (and the exact same statement occurs just
below, in the discussion of the active state).  This error is still
present in the current draft:

http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-06.txt

- Paul

[e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Dear Authors, I am a grad student assigned to do a report on BGP.  My main resource
> is RFC1771.  I am attempting to diagram the finite state machine for BGP.  On
> page 30 of RFC171, in the discussion of Connect State, the following appears:
> 
>      Start event is ignored in the Active State.
> 
> I am assuming this sentence should be:
> 
>      Start event is ignored in the Connect State.
> 
> Is this assumption correct.
> 
>      Thank you for an extremely helpful document (RFC1771).  I am not an "expert" in
> this material and your explanations are detailed enough to get me off the ground
> floor and write the material for my talk.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Cricket Haygood Deane

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