Question about normal ops - BGP Flaps nightly

[mel at beckman.org (Mel Beckman)]

No. There should be no reason to bounce the session. Do you have soft updates turn on?

-mel via cell

> On Nov 21, 2019, at 1:46 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy!
> A question of interest to me, currently, is whether it's normal for
> providers to cause BGP flaps to their customers nightly... This seems,
> in my case, to be the provider PROBABLY updating prefix-filters on my
> session(s).
> 
> Particularly AS56554 is currently getting v4/v6 transit from 2
> providers, one of which we have 2 links toward. That provider appears
> to flap both of our ipv6 (only) bgp peers each night at about the same
> time each night. This smells like: "filter updates', but something
> that's different than the v4 filter update? (or perhaps they have no
> v4 filtering to update?)
> 
> In the end, should customers expect nightly (or on a regular cadence)
> to see their sessions bounce? It hasn't been my experience in other
> situations...
> 
> -chris