Re: [Idr] BGP maximum message size

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Mon, 25 February 2013 11:33 UTC

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On 25/02/2013 11:19, suketu soni wrote:
> Does this message size - 4096 octets - relate to maximum TCP window size
> used by BGP?

No.  it's the size of the bgp message as defined in 4271.  E.g. UPDATE +
NLRIs + attributes, etc.  It's not particularly related to tcp packet size.

Nick