Re: BGPD: crash

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

* Toni Mueller <openbsd-misc_(_at_)_oeko_(_dot_)_net> [2005-07-13 23:34]:
> I'm running OpenBSD's bgpd on one of my machines (i386) and, for some
> reasons, a snapshot of July 12th. Before, I ran a snap from May 2nd (?)
> which worked very nicely wrt. BGP, with a session lifetime in the
> neighborhood of 10 days (I rebooted the box for unrelated reasons).
> The machine itself has enough horsepower to run bgpd, and I import
> everything.
> 
> Now, with the current snapshot, I find this in my logs after bgpd was
> dead:
> 
> Jul 13 22:52:08 w1 bgpd[14813]: fatal in RDE: Uh, oh a politician in the decision process

huch, that means you have two completely identical prefix/as-path 
combos in the rib, received from the same peer... should be 
impossible?! very strange.
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