mirror_frr/tests/topotests/bgp_dynamic_capability/r2
Donatas Abraitis 4338e21aa2 Revert "bgpd: Handle Addpath capability using dynamic capabilities"
This reverts commit 05cf9d03b3.

TL;DR; Handling BGP AddPath capability is not trivial (possible) dynamically.

When the sender is AddPath-capable and sends NLRIs encoded with AddPath ID,
and at the same time the receiver sends AddPath capability "disable-addpath-rx"
(flag update) via dynamic capabilities, both peers are out of sync about the
AddPath state. The receiver thinks already he's not AddPath-capable anymore,
hence it tries to parse NLRIs as non-AddPath, while they are actually encoded
as AddPath.

AddPath capability itself does not provide (in RFC) any mechanism on backward
compatible way to handle NLRIs if they come mixed (AddPath + non-AddPath).

This explains why we have failures in our CI periodically.

Signed-off-by: Donatas Abraitis <donatas@opensourcerouting.org>
2025-01-25 20:51:16 +02:00
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frr.conf Revert "bgpd: Handle Addpath capability using dynamic capabilities" 2025-01-25 20:51:16 +02:00