[f-nsp] Netiron AS4 capabilities

Bogdan Rotariu bogdan at rotariu.ro
Thu Jun 29 17:50:06 EDT 2023


Ty, during my research I have found out that Mikrotik forces atomic-aggregate attribute to any announced prefixes, I guess the extended-length: set comes from that? This bug they acknowledge but said it has nothing to do with my issue and its just Brocade fault.

> On 30 Jun 2023, at 00:27, Jörg Kost <jk at ip-clear.de> wrote:
> 
> Bottom line: Vote with your wallet, buy some Extreme ;-)
> 
> In your dump e.g. there is an empty AS-Path with length 0 and then Extended-Length is set anyway.
> I think that the spontaneously flag setting, will cause problems for other vendors too.
> 
> Path Attribute - AS_PATH: empty
>    Flags: 0x50, Transitive, Extended-Length, Well-known, Complete
>        0... .... = Optional: Not set
>        .1.. .... = Transitive: Set
>        ..0. .... = Partial: Not set
>        ...1 .... = Extended-Length: Set
>        .... 0000 = Unused: 0x0
>    Type Code: AS_PATH (2)
>    Length: 0
> 
> 
> On 29 Jun 2023, at 23:13, Bogdan Rotariu wrote:
> 
>> Yes Netiron is a real stable software, we have plenty Brocades in use and except the ones that got many sessions and occasionally have memory issues, we never had any issues. Unfortunately I cannot convince Mikrotik that they have a bug and till now I cannot see anyone else on the forum or on their discord server that are affected by this
>> issue and more unfortunately I got my hands on devices I cannot use :-)
>> 




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