Route Refresh

[Bryan Schwerer]

I'm using back to back exabgp instances for unit test purposes.  If I do an "announce  route-refresh ipv4 mpls-vpn", it bounces the BGP connection, which does indeed refresh routes, but seems a bit awkward.  Is that how it is supposed to work?  Running 3.4.13.  Sample neighbor config used on both sides.

    neighbor W.X.Y.A {

        local-address  W.X.Y.B ;

        local-as 65001;

        peer-as 65000;

        group-updates;

        capability {

           route-refresh;

           graceful-restart 2;

        }

While I'm here, does the ttl-security field control the TTL in the outbound message or is it a threshold for the inbound message?

Thanks,

Bryan Schwerer

[Thomas Mangin]

Hi Bryan,

> I'm using back to back exabgp instances for unit test purposes. If I do an
> "announce route-refresh ipv4 mpls-vpn", it bounces the BGP connection,

No it should not bounce the connection (i.e. kill the TCP session).
Could you please open an issue on github. I need to try an replicate.

> While I'm here, does the ttl-security field control the TTL in the outbound
> message or is it a threshold for the inbound message?

TTL set the following on the outgoing TCP connection
io.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_IP,socket.IP_TTL, ttl)

Thomas

[Thomas Mangin]

>> I'm using back to back exabgp instances for unit test purposes. If I
>> do an
>> "announce route-refresh ipv4 mpls-vpn", it bounces the BGP
>> connection,
>
> No it should not bounce the connection (i.e. kill the TCP session).
> Could you please open an issue on github. I need to try an replicate.

Oh, before you do !

Can you make sure the family section has the “ipv4 mpls-vpn” in it.
As if the family was not negotiated and the announce message is sent it
will cause the session to bounce.

Thomas

[Bryan Schwerer]

Hi Thomas,

Both sides have the ipv4 mpls-vpn family enabled.  I will create a git hub issue.

Thanks