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Re: Regarding global BGP community values

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Oct 14 02:10:17 1999

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> The fundamental feature for the REAL-TIME device (such as ROUTER) should be
> a lot of HOT-DOG mechanisms preventing /at least/ lost of the control over
> the device. In case of such _voracious_ processes (as BGP is) it should
> be used any mechanism preventing it from catching all existing
> resources
> (CPU and MEMORY in our case).

I think you mean a 'watch dog'.  Most routers already have lots of 'hot dogs' around them.  ;-)

Tony




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