In my experience with such things, it's not a matter of "some routes will be dropped", but "traffic to certain destinations will blackhole unless there's a covering route in FIB." On Thu, 9 Nov 2023, Ross Tajvar via Outages wrote:
Surely it's better to drop some routes than to drop the whole session.
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 5:26 PM Rubens Kuhl via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote: On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:22 PM Job Snijders via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 23:18, Steve Meuse via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote: >> >> Are people using max-prefix for iBGP sessions? >> >> That seems.....unwise. > > > > Yes, I find it hard to imagine what risks would be mitigated by applying max-prefix limits to IBGP sessions.
TCAM limits, perhaps ?
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