All things related to multicast

["William F. Maton" <>]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Bill Owens wrote:

> FYI, our two Abilene MSDP peers had pushed up to over 45k SAs, so I've
>now shut them down. It was causing problems for CANARIE, and although our
>backbone Junipers haven't been affected yet, I'm not willing to take the
>chance.
>
> If things aren't better by the morning I'm going to be working on a
>filter to see whether I can let at least some of the legitimate sources
>through, though I'm not exactly sure how to specify that. . .

FWIW, we're seeing 20K+ MSDP entries coming from CANARIE towards us at AS
2884.  I've had to shutdown MSDP peering and it seems there are deeper
problems within CANARIE's network that are affecting AS2884's downstreams.


wfms