[c-nsp] Best Practices for quickly removing routes when BGP peer drops

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Thu Dec 11 02:20:52 EST 2025


Hi,

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 09:15:52AM +0200, Saku Ytti via cisco-nsp wrote:
> However some reasons people might not want to do BGP free core is that
> they don't know how to get traceroute working without inflated
> latencies, which might cause customer tickets. There is an easy
> solution to it, but it may not be obvious.

Can you share some reading material on this?

(We've been on the "receiving end" on this a few times, like traceroutes
showing "munich -> frankfurt" latency jumps of +100ms due to LSPs going
trans-atlantic being involved - and understanding better options might
be useful in convincing transit ISPs to do better ;-) )

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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