Juniper Routing Problem disrupts Level 3 network Posted by Adel Mubarak , Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 12:35 AM, in Labels: Linux Kernel

Yesterday several US and UK ISPs, including Time Warner Cable, Research in Motion, Eclipse Internet, Easynet and Merula, reported a range of errors and problems on the Level 3 backbone. Level 3 has now confirmed the reports. The cause of the problems appears to have been a bug in Juniper's Junos router operating system affecting the border gateway protocol (BGP).

US ISP Phyber Communications has told various US media organisations that other networks using Juniper routers were also affected by the failure, with most affected devices generating a memory dump and then restarting. Juniper manager Mark Bauhaus confirmed that the company had been made aware of the BGP error in edge routers on Monday morning. He stated that the bug had affected only a small number of Juniper customers and that the company already had a patch for the problem which was awaiting distribution to affected routers.

Source: Linux.com