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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Andrew Hoyos <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> 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. > > Lastly, In this *specific* case, this presents issues with other members ports who are *NOT* affected by the maintenance and a loss of traffic for them if they are doing MLPA. 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. Sadly, I can't thumbs-up this post as I can on FB... -Tk