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[Alexander Gall <>]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:25:52 +0200, mc36 <> said:

> yes it is
> i already got 3 such messages...
> the message is just a consequence, but there are signs: getNextDynVrf
> i already have a patch but i decided apply it later

> so the best i can do is to kick off the dataplane if it does not sends me 
> the supported vrf range
> so if i apply the patch now, you'll still have a dead dataplane...
> so for now, as it sends me a traceback, at least i can notify you all...

Ok, it is finally dawning on me what you mean :) This is specific to
GVA0001. I didn't catch that until now. I thought it was a generic
thing about the rare-nix repo.

That host has a version of rare-nix installed with a slightly older
version of the forwarder and somebody has used "flash update" to
overwrite rtr.jar in the package, which is not reversible (yes,
everyone, please don't do that).

Frederic has actually tried to fix this with the
release-manager. However, the management network is currently so bad
at that location that this fails with a timeout (400kbps max and
probably tons of loss, virtually unusable). He has reached out the
GEANT NOC but no result yet AFAIK.

-- 
Alex