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Re: [Idr] why has 4096 bytes limit on BGP messages size?

Tony Li <tli@cisco.com> Thu, 14 June 2007 06:24 UTC

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From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [Idr] why has 4096 bytes limit on BGP messages size?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:24:50 -0700
To: Fenggen Jia <fgjia@mail.zjgsu.edu.cn>
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On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:01 PM, Fenggen Jia wrote:

> hi,all,
>       I am wondering why BGP has 4096 bytes limit on all its  
> messages,should we leave it to the implementator to decide,thanks!


Well, the problem with that is that a sender could then create an  
arbitrarily long message, which could be arbitrarily problematic for  
a receiver.

Tony


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