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Re: IS-IS protocol implementation problem
- From: Sean Donelan
- Date: Sun Oct 29 21:51:50 2000
On Sun, 29 October 2000, smd@clock.org wrote:
> P.S.: any chance you can be a bit more concrete about what's happening?
When I'm concrete, providers complain I'm picking on them, and getting
them bad press.
But since you asked....
At approximately 7:37am EDT on Friday, about 258 Cisco 12000's on UUNET's
primary backbone reloaded. This appeared to be isolated to routers
in ASN 701. It disrupted reachability to about 15% of the world-wide Internet
based on data from Matrix measurements. A contributing cause was a bad
IS-IS packet which confused certain IOS versions in the 12.0 IOS software
train. I haven't heard what the root cause was or what originated the
bad IS-IS packet. The Cisco bug id is CSCdr05779. Any provider running the
affected IOS version may be vulnerable depending on what the root cause
turns out to be.
Although the bad IS-IS packet didn't propagate to other providers, several
other providers did report BGP resets and route flaps about the same time.
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