[j-nsp] BGP multihop problem - ERX310

Gabriel Blanchard gabe at teksavvy.ca
Mon May 2 19:25:51 EDT 2011


try turning on BGP debugging on the ERX. It's likely a timer expiry like you pointed out but at least that way you'll be able to tell where the problem lies.

-Gabe

On 2011-05-02, at 7:19 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Hi there.
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> Turning up an ERX-310 for a customer - it's multihomed to 2 different ISP's.
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> First ISP connection works great and has been stable for about a month now
> (since it was turned up).
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> The second connection has two sessions - the first session is a /30 and is
> stable. only one prefix received here which sets things up for the EBGP
> multihop session on the second session. 
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> The second *session* of the second provider is where the issue is occurring
> -after exactly 90 seconds the session drops.  This tells me the timers are
> expiring but puzzled why.  I know it's a Cisco at the other end but
> according to the folks who  manage the Cisco router it is set to 30/90 for
> timers.
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> A ping test to the remote loopback doesn't show any slowdowns or loss of
> packets.
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> As JunOSe and the ERX platform are "newer" for me I'm hoping it's something
> obvious.. Unfortunately I'm not getting the answer so far though ;)
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> Thanks,
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> Paul
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