On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Andrew Hoyos <hoyosa@gmail.com> wrote:
Clean shutdown of bird is easier, quicker, and will for sure make the multilateral peering not be further affected by bouncing repeatedly.
Yes, great for MLPA, but not for bilateral.
Lastly, In this *specific* case, this presents issues with other members ports who are *NOT* affected by the maintenance and a loss of traffic for them if they are doing MLPA. Why break everyone and cause a total route server outage, when it’s not necessary at all? Yesterday’s maintenance only affected a portion of members. ACL’s on member ports would be the cleanest way to minimize outage duration for all members with the least impact to the IX as a whole.
Sadly, I can't thumbs-up this post as I can on FB... -Tk