Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Dong
Request for Comments: 6608 M. Chen
Updates: 4271 Huawei Technologies
Category: Standards Track A. Suryanarayana
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems
May 2012
Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
Abstract
This document defines several subcodes for the BGP Finite State
Machine (FSM) Error that could provide more information to help
network operators in diagnosing BGP FSM issues and correlating
network events. This document updates RFC 4271.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Requirements Language ...........................................2
3. Definition of Finite State Machine Error Subcodes ...............2
4. Usage of FSM Error Subcodes .....................................2
5. Security Considerations .........................................3
6. IANA Considerations .............................................3
7. Contributors ....................................................4
8. Acknowledgements ................................................4
9. References ......................................................4
9.1. Normative References .......................................4
9.2. Informative References .....................................4
1. Introduction
This document defines several subcodes for the BGP [RFC4271] Finite
State Machine (FSM) Error that could provide more information to help
network operators in diagnosing BGP FSM issues and correlating
network events. This information is also helpful to developers in
lab situations. This document updates [RFC4271] by requiring that
BGP implementations insert appropriate FSM Error subcodes in
NOTIFICATION messages for BGP FSM errors.
2. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
3. Definition of Finite State Machine Error Subcodes
This document defines the following subcodes for the BGP Finite State
Machine Error:
0 - Unspecified Error
1 - Receive Unexpected Message in OpenSent State
2 - Receive Unexpected Message in OpenConfirm State
3 - Receive Unexpected Message in Established State
4. Usage of FSM Error Subcodes
If a BGP speaker receives an unexpected message (e.g., KEEPALIVE/
UPDATE/ROUTE-REFRESH message) on a session in OpenSent state, it MUST
send to the neighbor a NOTIFICATION message with the Error Code
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Finite State Machine Error and the Error Subcode "Receive Unexpected
Message in OpenSent State". The Data field is a 1-octet, unsigned
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