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From: narten@PURDUE.EDU (Thomas Narten)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Not a good day for EGP
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Date: 18 Jan 88 03:04:55 GMT
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>In fact, both Purdue gateways (Butterfly and LSI-11) have been up with out
>any restarts for a month or more.  See attached status reports.

In that case, the extra bogus nets (or some other recent problem) may
be causing the EGP servers to "burp" periodically.

Three times in the last 4 days, the Butterfly EGP decided that
we (128.211.1.1) were no longer an EGP neighbor, and restarted the
neighbor aquisition protocol.  In each case, events happened suddenly
and without warning; no cease commands were received, and we had not
even declared the Butterfly down for lack of responses to hellos &
polls.  I am fairly certain that this had not happening even once in
the entire preceding month.

I can't speak for the LSI-11 gateway, because we aren't peering with
it anymore.

Thomas