Re: [GROW] [Idr] RFC7854: EoR

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

+grow, where BMP is standardized.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 09:45:29PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> In 3.3:
> 
>    Once it has sent all the
>    routes for a given peer, it MUST send an End-of-RIB message for that
>    peer; when End-of-RIB has been sent for each monitored peer, the
>    initial table dump has completed.  (A monitoring station that only
>    wants to gather a table dump could close the connection once it has
>    gathered an End-of-RIB or Peer Down message corresponding to each
>    Peer Up message.)
> 
> The wording looks like the EoR is sent once per peer. However, an
> EoR is AFI/SAFI-dependent. Therefore, it is unclear if any EoR
> should signal the end of the initial table dump or if one EoR per
> family is needed.
> 
> Looking at JunOS implementation, I see one EoR per family.

It is indeed per family in Juniper's implementation for exactly the reasons
you mention.

If the authors agree that was the intent, it's minimally worth an RFC Errata
covering the point.

-- Jeff