[afnog] BGP Error Cease 6/6

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On Apr 14, 2011, at 7:22 PM, jacob miller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am getting frequent flaps on BGP.
> Am getting the following on logs
> 
> MY UPSTREAM PEER (JUNIPER)
> %DAEMON-4: bgp_ifachange_group:XXX: NOTIFICATION sent to <<MY PEER IP ADDRESS> (External AS <<<MY AS NUMBER>>>): code 6 (Cease) subcode 6 (Other 
> Configuration Change), Reason: Interface change for the peer-group
> 
> MY ROUTER (Cisco ASR 7206)
> %BGP-3-NOTIFICATION: received from neighbor <<<My UPSTREAM ROUTER PEERING IP>>> 6/6 (cease) 0 bytes.
> 
> Am unable to make any heads or tails of the following:
> 
> What the errors mean
> What causes them
> How do I sort the issue

take a look at the error codes (6/6).  decode them here:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4271.txt
p22.

--n.