* Graeme Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-21 01:51]: > I've had to connect to a new upstream peer which is advertising an IPv4 > safi of 128 (MPLS-labelled VPN address) > see http://www.iana.org/assignments/safi-namespace > > I've modified the source to temporarily ignore this (actually anything over > 127) as it currently only accepts 1 thru 3. Once the session is > established, everything works well. What I really need to know is if this > is potentially A Huge Mistake, or should bgpd be able to ignore unsupported > capabilities being advertised to it?
the standards are pretty unclear about it, but the most logical interpretation is that we have to send back a notification telling the peer that we don't support this so capability negotiation actually works. what is the peer? first time i hear sth doens't work w/ capa negitiation... -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
