[56684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route Supression Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Wed Mar 12 11:35:12 2003
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:33:25 -0600
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > > You need at least three flaps to trigger dampening.
>
> > i guess you really need to look at that pdf.
>
> You are right, it is depressing. However, I don't see how the penalty
> multiplication could happen here, you need a few hops in between for
> that.
Ah, but this is the Internet. Jack's two upstreams likely have direct
or indirect links between them where they will also receive the route
updates in question.
Should we change the subject (back) to "BGP to doom us all"?
Peter E. Fry
(I believe I said that without swearing. $#&%*@!)
