[j-nsp] Strange ARP issue on M7i

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Tobias Heister <lists at tobias-heister.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 14.08.2012 22:09, schrieb Jonathan Lassoff:
>> A dynamic routing protocol and BFD would be see this right away and
>> move traffic, but this would break any static routes that rely on any
>> dynamism with ARP and next-hops.
>>
>> Moral of the story, as I see it: avoid static routing.
>
> At least in our case it was a bgp route with a third-party next-hop (server) living on a connected LAN segment.
> So we could not be saved by BFD in this case, but i admit its a special setup.

I'm confused, because you said that "The next-hop ip was gone for
several weeks".

In this case, wouldn't BGP detect the neighbor as down and remove the
route from the RIB?

--j