Re: [Idr] TCP & BGP: Some don't send terminate BGP when holdtimer expired, because TCP recv window is 0

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Hi Tony,

> * Is the "unable to send" only possible under Window = 0 ? What if there
> is a local NIC buffer full and we keep dropping it locally ? If we are
> going there perhaps we could say "unable to successfully send" meaning send
> and get an ACK for it ?
>
> There are many, many reasons why we might not be able to exchange bits.
> The specifics aren’t particularly relevant. The point is that we’re not
> able to make progress, so the session is clearly broken.
>

I think we all see this and agree.
My point was to be able to detect more cases of unidirectional stuck
sessions resulting in more triggers to shut it down (then just watch the
RCV WND 0 for t=HT.

> * The proposal is about reusing the HOLD TIME value to bring BGP down
> when you are still receiving keepalives however peer sent ACK for the last
> segment indicating zero window - is this right ?
>
> More generally, the proposal is that we apply the HOLD TIME on the
> transmit side as well as the receive side. If we are not able to transmit
> for that period of time, the receiver should give up and so should the
> transmitter. The session is broken, updates cannot flow, and we no longer
> have (eventual) consistency.
>

That means as you also mentioned below that receiver should close the
session when HOLD TIME expires. I would like to actually better understand
why this is not taking place here, before we continue.

Creating more TCP sessions is not likely to improve the behavior of a TCP
> receiver.
>

Hmmm if socket it full to one SAFI and other socket(s) are working just
fine to some other ones I am not sure if this is not a safer bet.

Say IGP is churning and BGP-LS is taking all resources of TCP single
socket. Then 1/1 or 2/1 will die with it - when they could run just fine
...

Hi Jakob,

> whereas NOTIFICATION and FIN precludes GR.

Then it is pretty clear that we must start with RST. Hoping that subsequent
TCP session will be healthy. Only then perhaps we should kill it hard.

Best,
R.