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Graceful Shutdown of BGP Sessions
draft-dubois-bgp-planned-maintenance-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Author Nicolas Dubois
Last updated 2004-06-30
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft can be found at:
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Abstract

To ease the maintenance of BGP-4 sessions and limit the amount of traffic that is lost during planned maintenance on routers, a specific mechanism is proposed in order to gracefully shutdown a router or a session. It's proposed that a router first withdraw its route to its peer to initiate their convergence. After a timer the router can proceed with the closing of the BGP sessions and consequently remove its peers'routes from it's RIB (Routing Information Base).

Authors

Nicolas Dubois

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