[150512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do not filter your customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sun Feb 26 00:44:59 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:43:58 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAHUKT2BMAU48MOpp9b71JeSN0How4+7wmEHYFFdxbeDEQWc07A@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 26, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Dongting Yu wrote:
> you drop updates, which would lead to inconsistent views on the two side=
s of the session.
Views are inconsistent by design - there is no state synchronization. All =
a sender knows is that he sent the updates, not what (if anything) was done=
with them by the receiver.
> What if a legitimate update was among the large burst?
Presumably, soft-reset would be initiated after the throttling.
But per previous email, if any sort of throttling is to be done at all, it'=
s probably best that it is done by the sender.
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