a router that's allergic to bgp

From: Larry Yurdin (lyurdin@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Nov 10 2002 - 21:52:36 GMT-3


Has anybody ever encountered anything like this? I was renting use of
on an online rack. When entering attempting to enable bgp on one a the
routers on the rack, a 2513, each time I entered the words "router bgp
3" in global config mode, the router would spontaneously start to reload
within about 20 seconds. After several tries, I pasted in "router bgp 3"
and its subcommands from a text file and quickly did a copy run start
before it had a chance to reload. Needless to say, as I should have
anticipated, the router went into a reload loop, never completing the
reload but starting all over again each time it encountered the bgp
command in the startup config. I contacted someone at the online lab who
was able to erase the startup config so I could access it again.

 

I went then went back into the same router and typed in a brand new
config and - you guessed it - when I tried to enable bgp, the router
went into reload. Has anyone else ever had this experience?

 

Larry Yurdin

CCNP, CCDP, CISSP, MCSE, CNE



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