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Re: The Attitude (was: the Internet Backbone)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Apr 16 23:39:28 1996

Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:32:39 -0400
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: jerry@fc.net (Jeremy Porter), wsimpson@greendragon.com, fair@apple.com,
        nanog@merit.edu

At 04:39 PM 4/16/96 -0400, Avi Freedman wrote:

>> Exponential backoff works well, too bad the code base that does
>> route flap damping isn't really stable enough for production
>> use in large parts of the Internet.
>
>I think the code base that does route flap damp(en)ing is in use in
>large parts of the Internet...
>

I would have a tendency to agree with you on this datapoint.  :-)

- paul

>> Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc.      jerry@fc.net
>
>Avi
>

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