BGP flapping while peering with Juniper - Hold timer expired error

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:41:00PM +0800, Jimmy Halim wrote:
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> BIRD running on Centos. The 2nd working session also use the same MD5
> password and same hardware. The funny part is we have just fixed the issue
> by removing the MD5 password. We then tried a different MD5 password but
> the session flaps again.
> 
> The funny part, when the BGP is established during the flap, I don't get
> any routes from the neighbour. But the neighbour claims that they received
> all prefixes that are advertised by us. Is there any other aspect that
> might cause this?

I guess that initial packets that established session worked, then BIRD
side ignored next received packets. It sent its prefixes and either TCP-ACK
packets were not ignored, or the number of exported prefixes were small
enough that it does not matter.

-- 
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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"To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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