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

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 07:42:39PM +0000, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) wrote:
> How far do you want to push this?
> Does anyone want to restart the router?

Not very far! :-)

(1) A node detecting its peer is stuck (in either sending or receiving
direction) only needs to stop and start the affected session.

(2) Separately, restarting the stuck router (the one advertising
recvwind=0) might also be required, but such action would be orthogonal
to the node from (1) proceeding to cleanup routes & try again.

It won't be possible to specify a mechanism for part (2), but (1) very
much is within reach. Part (2) probably is done by field engineers,
while part (1) seems an appealing automated response to improve
robostness in multi-node networks.

Kind regards,

Job