[54288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using link congestion to control routing updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Lowinger)
Fri Dec 20 09:45:09 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:57:54 +0100
From: Anders Lowinger <anders.lowinger@xelerated.com>
To: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>
Cc: Ejay Hire <ejay.hire@isdn.net>,
David Scott Olverson <olverson@fas.harvard.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <02db01c2a78f$a2fe1e40$ae876540@amer.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Opposite problem -- he wants to delay routing updates if the link is full.
> EIGRP by default won't use more than 25/50% (I forget) of link bw, for
> instance, but I'm not aware of any intentional features in other IGPs to do
> this.
Both OSPF and ISIS in Cisco's have pacing, ie they will not flood LSAs/LSPs
over a certain configurable limit. Not sure about other platforms..
-A
