Re: [Idr] new thread regarding capabilities handling

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

> What's the back story here? This is obviously a well-known understood
> problem then for 16 years already, why don't we still have this in 2017?


​Since you asked :) ....

1. Actually number of customers asked for it various vendors however non of
them showed sufficient money so naturally features which are not associated
with significant revenue are not that high on anyone's list (unless BGP
code you are maintaining is your hobby).

2. If we talking intra-domian in most cases ​you go via RRs. And it is a
good practice to configure your RR side either with multiple loopbacks or
even different contexts for each address family so each SAFI is independent
from one another. That way within your domain you can add/delete AFI/SAFIs
without impacting others. Moreover in case of using multiple context (VMs
or LXCs for reflection) you get multithreading across SAFIs for free too.

3. And last in general what really matters is to continue forwarding
packets and not to impact your other peers by BGP session reset. And here
comes quite well supported feature BGP Graceful Restart (RFC4724) It is
applicable for both iBGP and eBGP peers. And honestly many networks still
do not have it enabled even though it has been shipping for long time in
most major BGP code basis.

Kind regards,
Robert.