BGP: Malformed attribute list

Wolfgang Hennerbichler wh at univie.ac.at
Fri Apr 9 10:09:22 CEST 2010


On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:08 , Ondrej Zajicek wrote:

> Hello.

Hi, 

> Thank you for the bug report.

No problem. 

> The RFC 1997 does not explicitly forbid
> empty community attribute and we assumed that it is valid. But if
> some Cisco routers don't like it reasonable to not generate such
> attribute. I fixed it in dev version and the fix will be in coming
> update.

Great news. Actually I think every cisco router threw up, JunOS didn't seem to care (I think). 
BTW: What happens if I do a bgp_community.delete ((1234,1234)) if the community doesn't exist? 

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