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# sk170876 - In rare scenarios involving large AS paths, there may be a loss of BGP adjacency

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk170876 |
| Date Created | 2020-12-07 |
| Last Modified | 2020-12-24 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * In rare scenarios after upgrade, BGP route is not propogated.

* On Gaia OS, one of the neighbor routers may complain about malformed message, adjacency is also flapping to down.  

* Similar messages can be seen in neighbor's syslog:  

  `
  078794: Sep 19 16:49:10.628 AEST: %BGP-SW1-6-MSGDUMP_LIMIT: unsupported or mal-formatted message received from `:  
  FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF 0042 0200 0000 2840 0101 5040 020E 0203  
  0000 FE63 0000 16A3 A300 0022 0E40 0304 0AAD 004E C007 0800 00FE 630A AD00 4E10  
  9F2B  
  078795: Sep 19 16:49:10.628 AEST: %BGP-SW1-6-MALFORMEDATTR: Malformed attribute in (BGP(0) Prefixes: ) received from ,  
  078796: Sep 19 16:49:47.128 AEST: %BGP-SW1-3-NOTIFICATION: sent to neighbor 6/4 (Administrative Reset) 0 bytes  
  078797: Sep 19 16:49:47.136 AEST: %BGP-SW1-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor Down User reset

## Cause

The path attributes (of routes sent via BGP) are not being recognized by peer in certain circumstances related to the AS_PATH attribute size. This can cause the receiving system to reject the route and close the BGP connection, in turn removing BGP routes.

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