On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:48 AM Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 21, 2019, at 4:45 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > Howdy! > > A question of interest to me, currently, is whether it's normal for > > providers to cause BGP flaps to their customers nightly... This seems, > > in my case, to be the provider PROBABLY updating prefix-filters on my > > session(s). > > > > Particularly AS56554 is currently getting v4/v6 transit from 2 > > providers, one of which we have 2 links toward. That provider appears > > to flap both of our ipv6 (only) bgp peers each night at about the same > > time each night. This smells like: "filter updates', but something > > that's different than the v4 filter update? (or perhaps they have no > > v4 filtering to update?) > > > > In the end, should customers expect nightly (or on a regular cadence) > > to see their sessions bounce? It hasn't been my experience in other > > situations... > > > This seems unusual, perhaps a bug in their tooling or their config where it’s > doing a hard clear vs soft clear on the session?
This was sort of my thinking, but I was unsure if there was some new process and/or bug which other edge-y folk were dealing with of late. I can/will ask the provider in question (a local apac provider) if they are aware of the actions they are taking.
