On 11/11/21 16:33, Lukas Tribus wrote:

I believe with the amount of RAM we have on those boxes nowadays,
keeping a copy of everything should be a non-issue.

On the other hand, leveraging route-refresh changes your EBGP
behaviour, which can trigger remote and local bugs, or, as in your
case, trigger humans with most likely a little over-dramatic
monitoring. I won't trust other peoples BGP routers and
implementations more than I absolutely have to and I don't think my
time is well spent arguing with other people about their
underdimensioned control plane CPU, oversensitive CPU load monitoring
or troubleshooting corner cases in their BGP implementation that
trigger bugs in route refresh code. And then the need to explain in a
RFO why your network heavily uses route-refresh which triggered that
remote bug in the first place, while your competitor didn't change
anything in their BGP configuration in the last decade, so "they
didn't have any issue with this, only your network has issues''.

Those are all rabbit holes that I will gladly trade for a little bit
of RAM usage in a heartbeat.

So some friends and I are working on an RFC draft to fix this:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ymbk-sidrops-rov-no-rr

Comments and contributions are most welcome.

Mark.
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