On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 04:55:30PM -0500, Forestal, Andre Jr. wrote:
When routers have problems, they are designed to report that they are sick. Internet traffic is rerouted to adjacent routers automatically and sent around the trouble spot. In this case, that didn't happen. The router went into a hung state and did not appear to the rest of the network as though it was having problems.
It appears BFD is a protocol foreign to Verizon. And why didn't hold timers expire on associated iBGP peers? Questions, questions... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |