[c-nsp] BGP flapping session

Chris Lane clane1875 at gmail.com
Tue May 25 09:30:12 EDT 2010


I had an extended ping going to customer IP during our troubleshooting and i
never lost a packet or had loss when the session went down. Customer states
they have a Juniper with 768m memory and i "was" sending full routes. My
hunch figured he had a memory issue so i shut down the Full route session
and sent him a default but it the session still flapped.
customer also states no errors on interface that we connect to him.

Thanks for response.


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Billy Guthrie <bg at billyguthrie.com> wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Have you checked connectivity to this customer; ping, traceroutes, etc.
>
> Customer's link could be saturated causing issues for BGP
>
>
>
> May 24 20:21:10.878: BGP:  open active delayed 28655ms (35000ms max, 28%
> jitter)
>
> the 28% leads me to be that it is possible there is some type of congestion
> which
> could be possibly the reason you are seeing flaps.
>
> Hope this helps
> Billy
>
>
>
>
>
> Chris Lane wrote:
>
>> We are an ISP and have many customer neighbor sessions on our router. One
>> of
>> my customers BGP sessions started flapping yesterday. The bridge we have
>> to
>> them has no errors or disconnects. So i debugged the bgp session and
>> recieved the following. Also to note the customer router is a Juniper.
>>
>> FYI: i removed the IPs.
>>
>> ay 24 20:20:29.715: BGP: timer-wheel running slow by 1 ticks
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGP:  remote close
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGP:  -reset the session
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGP:  rcv message type 3, length (excl. header) 2
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGPNSF state:  went from nsf_not_active to
>> nsf_not_active
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGP:  went from Established to Idle
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: %BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor  Down Peer closed the
>> session
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGP:  closing
>>
>> May 24 20:20:35.780: BGP:  read request no-op
>>
>> May 24 20:20:39.530: BGP:  read request no-op
>>
>> May 24 20:21:01.676: BGP:  read request no-op
>>
>> May 24 20:21:10.878: BGP:  went from Idle to Active
>>
>> May 24 20:21:10.878: BGP:  open active delayed 28655ms (35000ms max, 28%
>> jitter)
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.831: BGP:  passive open to 64.119.159.185
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.831: BGP:  went from Active to Idle
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  went from Idle to Connect
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  read request no-op
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  rcv message type 1, length (excl. header) 36
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  rcv OPEN, version 4, holdtime 90 seconds
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  went from Connect to OpenSent
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  sending OPEN, version 4, my as: 19406, holdtime
>> 180 seconds
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  rcv OPEN w/ OPTION parameter len: 26
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  rcvd OPEN w/ optional parameter type 2
>> (Capability) len 6
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  OPEN has CAPABILITY code: 1, length 4
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  OPEN has MP_EXT CAP for afi/safi: 1/1
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  rcvd OPEN w/ optional parameter type 2
>> (Capability) len 2
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.839: BGP:  OPEN has CAPABILITY code: 128, length 0
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  OPEN has ROUTE-REFRESH capability(old) for all
>> address-families
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  rcvd OPEN w/ optional parameter type 2
>> (Capability) len 2
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  OPEN has CAPABILITY code: 2, length 0
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  OPEN has ROUTE-REFRESH capability(new) for all
>> address-families
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  rcvd OPEN w/ optional parameter type 2
>> (Capability) len 8
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  OPEN has CAPABILITY code: 64, length 6
>>
>> BGP:  rcvd OPEN w/ remote AS 46324
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  went from OpenSent to OpenConfirm
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.848: BGP:  send message type 1, length (incl. header) 45
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.890: BGP:  went from OpenConfirm to Established
>>
>> May 24 20:21:13.890: %BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor  Up
>>
>> May 24 20:21:15.089: BGP_Router: unhandled major event code 128, minor 0
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help would greatly be appreciated.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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//CL


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