[f-nsp] BGP Session stuck in IDLE state

[Cliff Albert]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:53:20PM +0000, Sam Stickland wrote:

> I've got a BI15000 equipped with a B4GMR4 running 07.7.01T53.
> 
> I've just added it's 49th and 50th BGP sessions to it, but they remain 
> stuck in the IDLE stack. If I do a 'clear ip bgp nei x.y.z.w' then the 
> state briefly changes to IDLE* and then back to IDLE.
> 
> The neighbor configuration is identical to the other working sessions, and 
> the next-hop is reachable and directly connected.
> 
> It has 283MB of RAM free, and there isn't anything unusual in the logs.
> 
> As I recall when I recently added it's 48th BGP session it stayed in the 
> IDLE state for 5 minutes before establishing.
> 
> Has anyone got any suggestions as to what's wrong?

We are running 200+ BGP sessions on a BI4000 with a jetcore M4
management blade with 512MB ram running 07.7.01T53. We have never
experienced this problem in our lifetime, even after flapping of peering
LANs

-- 
Cliff Albert <cliff at oisec.net>