[j-nsp] RES: Juniper Junos 8.4

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:16:06AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> This is not true, MD5 has no relation. The issue is with an invalid BGP 
> message which Cisco propagates harmlessly (a violation of the BGP spec, 
> allowing the message to spread), but which Juniper (correctly) detects as 
> an error (thus dropping the session). The risk is to any BGP session 

Actually no I was wrong. As has been pointed out to me, its technically an 
unknown transitive and thus Cisco is correct to propagate and Juniper is 
incorrect to drop the session. My apologies for besmirching Cisco's good 
name. :)

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