Re: [Idr] IETF LC for IDR-ish document <draft-ietf-grow-bgp-reject-05.txt> (Default EBGP Route Propagation Behavior Without Policies) to Proposed Standard

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:58:50PM +0000, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
> I would agree with Keyur, For better or worse, our Cisco NX-OS BGP
> implementation does not require configuration of a peer policy.
> 
> In fact, this requirement is contrary to some of the auto-discovery
> mechanisms we are exploring where only knowledge of the mutual address
> families is required.

I know Cisco has been trying hard to market NX-OS as a data-center
centric device, not to be used on 'the Internet', however, folks do
connect NX-OS devices to the internet and this can result in pain for
others [1], especially when the defaults are insecure.

Kind regards,

Job

[1]: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/idr/current/msg16703.html