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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:34:21AM -0500, Andrew Hoyos wrote: > I???d disagree. The maintenance currently taking place affects more > than just the route servers. Plenty of people are doing bi-lateral > peering on MICE, and that *IS* affected by maintenance events like > these. Right - but that's for the bilateral peers to work on. Forcing the issue by adding an ACL that they may not have asked for seems kind of .. intruding. > Adding an ACL to the port ensures graceful shutdown/end of traffic, > rather than an abrupt drop and hold timer fun. I???d much rather > that someone running the maintenance and in control of the ultimate > link up/down events be the one deciding when things are > starting/ending and re-enabling traffic gracefully. I don't know if everyone accepts that. I'm playing devils advocate only. > > Clean shutdown of bird is easier, quicker, and will for sure make the > > multilateral peering not be further affected by bouncing repeatedly. > > Yes, great for MLPA, but not for bilateral. Bilateral users are already adding to their complication by having many more peers than just going multilateral. > Why break everyone and cause a total route server outage, when > it???s not necessary at all? Yesterday???s maintenance only > affected a portion of members. ACL???s on member ports would be the > cleanest way to minimize outage duration for all members with the > least impact to the IX as a whole. That member would have still been affected and would not have helped reduce the noise. -- Mike Horwath, reachable via [log in to unmask]