Frank,

Ideally it should not have, however what tends to happen is that when large ports go down the MAC addresses leave the table, and therefore the traffic gets flooded to all ports until BGP times out on the networks sending the traffic.  Since the route servers only have 1G ports, the 10G of traffic that typically is flowing to Belle Plaine probably saturated the route server ports for a short amount of time.  If you have short timeouts, or use something more sensitive like BFD I could see how your sessions dropped from the saturation.

Jeremy

We (AS18883) saw our BGP sessions with the MICE router reflectors bounce at that time – should that have happened?

Frank

Looks like the Zayo Belle Plaine remote went down at 5:37pm, I believe Lee @ SW MN Broadband is opening a ticket now.

From the MICE side we have light but no frames, and looking at other unrelated systems it appears the cut is South of Hwy 212 someplace.

Best of luck everyone,

Anthony