minor bird crash

[Arnold Nipper]

On 19.03.2010 15:02 Ondrej Zajicek wrote

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:57:25PM +0100, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>> > and if you do are you clearing the bgp sessions (in bird-speak
>> > reloading the protocols)?
>> > 
>> 
>> good question :-) My impression was that "configure soft" should do the
>> trick, but I'm not sure whether this really is true. Reloading the pipes
>> for instance generates a mssive route update afais. That's definitely
>> not what we want. I have even added "prefer older on;" to the bgp
>> protocol section to make prefixes more stable across the IXP.
> 
> Essentially, you have three options what to do after a change in filters:
> 

thank you for the detailled explanation. One final question:

what does the timestamp attached to routes mean? Like

 show route
194.0.194.0/24     via 80.81.192.35 on eth0 [R192_35 2010-03-14
16:22:10] * (100) [AS42315?]


TIA, Arnold
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Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
email: arnold at nipper.de       phone: +49 6224 9259 299
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