No. There should be no reason to bounce the session. Do you have soft updates turn on?
-mel via cell > On Nov 21, 2019, at 1:46 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... > > -chris
