When bgp registers for a nexthop that is not reachable due
to the nexthop pointing to a blackhole, bgp is never going
to be able to reach it when attempting to open a connection.
Broken behavior:
<show bgp nexthop>
192.168.161.204 valid [IGP metric 0], #paths 0, peer 192.168.161.204
blackhole
Last update: Thu Feb 11 09:46:10 2021
eva# show bgp ipv4 uni summ fail
BGP router identifier 10.10.3.11, local AS number 3235 vrf-id 0
BGP table version 40
RIB entries 78, using 14 KiB of memory
Peers 2, using 54 KiB of memory
Neighbor EstdCnt DropCnt ResetTime Reason
192.168.161.204 0 0 never Waiting for peer OPEN
The log file fills up with this type of message:
2021-02-09T18:53:11.653433+00:00 nq-sjc6c-cor-01 bgpd[6548]: can't connect to 24.51.27.241 fd 26 : Invalid argument
2021-02-09T18:53:21.654005+00:00 nq-sjc6c-cor-01 bgpd[6548]: can't connect to 24.51.27.241 fd 26 : Invalid argument
2021-02-09T18:53:31.654381+00:00 nq-sjc6c-cor-01 bgpd[6548]: can't connect to 24.51.27.241 fd 26 : Invalid argument
2021-02-09T18:53:41.654729+00:00 nq-sjc6c-cor-01 bgpd[6548]: can't connect to 24.51.27.241 fd 26 : Invalid argument
2021-02-09T18:53:51.655147+00:00 nq-sjc6c-cor-01 bgpd[6548]: can't connect to 24.51.27.241 fd 26 : Invalid argument
As that the connect to a blackhole is correctly rejected by the kernel
Fixed behavior:
eva# show bgp ipv4 uni summ
BGP router identifier 10.10.3.11, local AS number 3235 vrf-id 0
BGP table version 40
RIB entries 78, using 14 KiB of memory
Peers 2, using 54 KiB of memory
Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd PfxSnt Desc
annie(192.168.161.2) 4 64539 126264 39 0 0 0 00:01:36 38 40 N/A
192.168.161.178 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 never Active 0 N/A
Total number of neighbors 2
eva# show bgp ipv4 uni summ fail
BGP router identifier 10.10.3.11, local AS number 3235 vrf-id 0
BGP table version 40
RIB entries 78, using 14 KiB of memory
Peers 2, using 54 KiB of memory
Neighbor EstdCnt DropCnt ResetTime Reason
192.168.161.178 0 0 never Waiting for NHT
Total number of neighbors 2
eva# show bgp nexthop
Current BGP nexthop cache:
192.168.161.2 valid [IGP metric 0], #paths 38, peer 192.168.161.2
if enp39s0
Last update: Thu Feb 11 09:52:05 2021
192.168.161.131 valid [IGP metric 0], #paths 0, peer 192.168.161.131
if enp39s0
Last update: Thu Feb 11 09:52:05 2021
192.168.161.178 invalid, #paths 0, peer 192.168.161.178
Must be Connected
Last update: Thu Feb 11 09:53:37 2021
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