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Re: Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Fri Sep 6 00:18:44 1996

From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: peterf@microsoft.com (Peter Ford)
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 00:04:44 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-69-MSG-960906020902Z-31458@mail.microsoft.com> from "Peter Ford" at Sep 5, 96 07:09:02 pm

> It seems the problem is number of flaps, etc.  Doesn't it make sense to 
> simply start dropping the routes that flap the most?  Of course this will 
> be biased in the /24 space but at least the rationale/solution maps 
> identically to a solid reason.
> 
> To what extent is this flapping due to basically static information being 
> propogated?  One solution would be to nail these routes ...
> 
> Cheers, peter

I know that Sprint was talking about doing this (damping /24s harder
than /23s harder than ...).

Is it implemented or about to be implemented?

Avi


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