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On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:10:00PM +0000, Frank Bulk wrote:
>Anyone else see this today with both MICE route reflectors?
>
>Dec  8 13:38:56 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.2 DOWN (Attribute Length Error)
>Dec  8 13:38:56 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.1 DOWN (Attribute Length Error)
>Dec  8 13:39:47 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.1 UP (ESTABLISHED)
>Dec  8 13:39:47 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.1 DOWN (Attribute Length Error)
>Dec  8 13:39:49 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.2 UP (ESTABLISHED)
>Dec  8 13:39:49 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.2 DOWN (Attribute Length Error)
>Dec  8 13:41:28 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.1 UP (ESTABLISHED)
>Dec  8 13:41:28 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.1 DOWN (Attribute Length Error)
>Dec  8 13:41:36 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.2 UP (ESTABLISHED)
>Dec  8 13:41:36 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.2 DOWN (Attribute Length Error)
>Dec  8 13:44:36 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.1 UP (ESTABLISHED)
>Dec  8 13:45:23 192.168.0.85 BGP: Peer 206.108.255.2 UP (ESTABLISHED)

Which AS are you?

No, but at the same time on the BIRD side we saw

2017-12-08 13:39:55  NASN_26794: Received: Invalid attribute length: 400200400304ce6c
2017-12-08 13:39:55  NASN_54578: Received: Invalid attribute length: 400200400304ce6c
2017-12-08 13:39:55  NASN_32609: Received: Malformed AS_PATH: 400200
2017-12-08 13:39:55  NASN_22402: Received: Invalid attribute length: 400200400304ce6c
2017-12-08 13:39:55  NASN_16842: Received: Malformed AS_PATH: 400200
2017-12-08 13:39:55  NASN_10242: Received: Malformed AS_PATH: 400200


Which in the past meant somebody had a cisco, and wasn't doing

	no bgp enforce-first-as

as BIRD doesn't insert the MICE AS into the AS path, and that confuses Cisco devices.

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Doug McIntyre                            <[log in to unmask]>
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