Re: [Idr] Capability Advertisement in draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages

Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> Thu, 01 August 2019 15:53 UTC

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From: Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:52:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Idr] Capability Advertisement in draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages
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I know I am late with this suggestion - but why not do this in backwards
compatible fashion moving the solution up the stack ?

Instead of extending the message itself - why not to issue a simple draft
to enable sending BGP UPDATE exceeding 4K into multiple UPDATE messages ?



On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:00 AM Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> >> A BGP speaker MUST NOT send the extended messages capability in an
> >> OPEN message to any BGP speaker if it has received an OPEN message
> >> without the extended message capability from any BGP speaker.
> >
> > so, until every router in the bgp internet is extended enabled, no
> > router may use extended.
>
> even more fun
>
> the internet is only four routers, A - B - C - D
> they are all happily speaking extended
> router E joins after D
> E does not speak extended
>
> how does the signal to not speak extended propagate
> E - D - C - B - A?
>
> randy
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