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bgp-events Messages

This chapter describes messages generated by the bgp-events subsystem.

Major

Message: BGP Max Route Instance Exceeded Dropping Route peer <name> Current Prefixes : <number> Limit: <prefixes>

Meaning: The BGP sesion on the Avici router detected that the received number of routes were greater than or equal to the max number of supported routes.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: BGP Max Unique Routes Exceeded. Dropping Route. Peer [<name>] Current Prefixes : <number> Limit: <routes>

Meaning: The BGP sesion on the Avici router detected that the received number of unique routes was greater than or equal to the max number supported uniques routes.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: BGP Mem Low. Dropping Route Peer <name> Mem Avail: <memory> bytes Threshold: <minimum required memory> Total: <Tot_Sys_Mem> Prefixes: <unique routes> Instances: <route instances>

Meaning: The BGP sesion on Avici router detected that the available system memory is less than the min required memory after receiving a route.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: Cfg value <max route instances> Lower than Current # of Routes Instances: <number>

Meaning: The BGP session on the Avici router detected that the number of current route instances exceeded the number of configured maximum route instances.

Action: Check the BGP configuration. If the problem persists, contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: Cfg value <max unique routes> Lower than Current # of Unique Routes: <number>

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router detected that the current number of unique routes exceeded the number of configured max route instances.

Action: Check the BGP configuration. If the problem persists, contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: Polluted Peer: <name> Cleared. Num polluted peers <number>

Meaning: This message shows the information for the polluted peer when an established BGP sesion on the Avici router goes down.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: buffer already allocated

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici Router tried to allocate memory.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: buffer not present

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router tried to free the memory.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: connection error to remote peer (<Peer Name>): errno <error name>(<error number>)

Meaning: The BGP session failed to get the peer's socket address after the connection was completed.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: couldn't get BGP listen socket!!

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router failed to get the listen socket descriptor.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: error sending KEEPALIVE to <name>

Meaning: The BGP session on the Avici router failed to send a keepalive message to it's peer when the local keepalive timed out.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: getting local adddress task_get_addr_local(<name>)

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router failed to allocate memory for a local socket address while making a peer connection.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: holdtime expired for <name>

Meaning: The BGP session on the Avici router detected that it didn't establish the BGP connection with it's peer or the peer exceeded holdtime.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: holdtime expired for <peer name> time since sockets processed: <time since socket processed last time> last received: <time since data received last time> num of reads skipped since last receive: <# of reads skipped> session state: <peer state>

Meaning: The hold timer expired for the neighbor.

Action: Either the local system or the neighbor is busy. Collect the system log and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: listen

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router failed to listen on the BGP socket.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: notify message <sent to | received from> <name> is truncated (length <value>)

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router received a shorter than minimum length notification message from a peer whose BGP notification message is corrupted.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: received OPEN message from <name>, state is ESTABLISHED

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router expected an update message from a peer but receives an open message.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: sending <length> (sent <number>) bytes to <name> failed

Meaning: The BGP session on the Avici router failed to create a notification message

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: sending <bytes sent> (sent <total bytes sent>) bytes to <peer name> failed errno: <error name>

Meaning: Sending data to the peer failed.

Action: The socket is full or the neighbor is busy. Check the TCP connection to the neighbor.

Message: sending <length> (sent <number>) bytes to <name>: connection closed

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router could not write a notification message on a peer's spooled data because of the closed connection.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: sending to <name> (sent <number>, <remaining message length> remain<blank or s>) looping

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router could not write a notification message on a peer's spooled data after trying several times

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: synchronization failure with BGP task <name>

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router received an open message from a peer and the peer's default authentication information doesn't match the BGP default authentication information on router.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: task_get_addr_local() failed, terminating!!

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router could not get it's local socket address pointer when processing an incomming connection request from a peer.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Message: unsupported BGP version <version>!!!

Meaning: The BGP session on Avici router received a bgp update message from a peer whose BGP version is not BGP-4.

Action: Save your system log to a file and contact Avici Customer Support.

Minor

Message: Closing peer <peer address>. Interface Down. Current BGP Session State: <peer state>

Meaning: The interface on which the peer is enabled has gone down.

Action: Check the status of the interface.

Message: bgp_recv: peer <name>: received unexpected EOF

Meaning: An unexpected EOF was received when reading data from the peer

Action: Check the connectivity to the remote peer.

Message: error sending KEEPALIVE to <peer address>, errno: <error name>(<error number>) from rtn: <calling function>

Meaning: A KEEPALIVE message sent to the peer has failed.

Action: The socket is full or the neighbor has closed the TCP connection. Check the TCP connection to the neighbor.

Message: peer <peer name> keepalive not received ignored! last processed sockets <time since sockets processed> seconds ago! hold time <hold time> last received <time since last data received from Nbr> last sent: <time since data sent last time to Nbr> byes in rx buffer: <# of bytes in the socket>

Meaning: There is unprocessed data from the neighbor in the socket that the hold timer timeout ignored

Action: Collect system logs and contact Avici Customer Support.

Warning

Message: BGP peer <peer address> interface not found. Leaving peer idled

Meaning: The interface to the peer was not found.

Action: Check whether the correct peer address has been configured.

Message: Could not find group to which peer <peer> belongs.Dropping him.

Meaning: Could not find the peer-group to which the specified peer belongs.

Action: Check whether the peer is configured in the local system.

Message: connect <address> (Routing AS <n>)

Meaning: The initial attempt to connect to the peer <ip_address> failed.

Action: Check peer connectivity and reachability.

Message: connect <peer address>: errno <error name>(<error number>)

Meaning: Opening the TCP connection to the remote peer failed.

Action: Check the status of the connectivity to the peer.

Message: connection error to remote peer (<address> (Routing AS <n>))

Meaning: The connection attempt to peer <ip_address> has failed.

Action: Check peer connectivity and reachability.

Message: holdtime expired RCVD for <peer name> time in seconds: since last sent: <time since data sent to Nbr> since write blocked: <time since write blocked for Nbr> since write ready: <time since write_ready was called> bgp state: <peer state>

Meaning: The hold timer expired notification was received from the Neighbor.

Action: Find the reason in the local system for not sending the keepalive message to the neighbor.

Message: peer <peer name> local address <local address> unavailable, connection failed

Meaning: Binding the local address to the socket failed.

Action: Check whether the configured local address is correct.

Message: peer <peer name> sent invalid capability

Meaning: The peer has sent an invalid capability or there is no common capability between the local system and the peer.

Action: Check the capabilities configured in local system and the remote system.

Message: peer <peer name> timed out waiting for OPEN

Meaning: A time out occurred while waiting for open message from the peer.

Action: Check the status of the peer in remote system.

Message: received route refresh failed: peer <remote address> has not negotiated the SAFI <SAFI not negotiated> value

Meaning: A Peer has sent the route refresh message with the SAFI, which is not negotiated for this BGP session

Action: Check the peer for the negotiated address families for this BGP session.

Message: rejecting connection from <remote address>, peer in state <state>

Meaning: The BGP session to the peer is in established/open/confirm/idle state and an open message has been received from the peer. The new TCP connection initiated by the remote peer is rejected and the existing connection is used

Action: No action required


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