From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: bgpd: rename rtr session states
To: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 16:58:58 +0100

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 04:50:53PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> The RTR session states are a bit confusing since "idle" and "active" are
> also states in the BGP state machine. In BGP "idle" and "active" are
> states where the session is not established. So this leads to confusion.
> 
> Use "established" instead of "idle" and "exchange" instead of "active".
> By default the session will be in "established" state and quicly switch to
> "exchange" when a new delta is received. I think these names are better
> and less confusing.
> 
> OK?

Totally makes sense to me

ok tb