[6969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: withdrawal propagation (was E.E. Times?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Tue Jan 14 15:33:28 1997
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:32:03 -0500
To: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff), young@mci.net (Jeff Young)
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com, nanog@merit.edu
At 12:46 PM 1/14/97 -0500, Jon Zeeff wrote:
>
>> 0) Is this a bug, does it cause any problem whatsoever?
>
>If I'm not mistaken, lots of routers have had performance problems
>caused by excessive rates of routing updates.
>
>Or did I misread various previous messages to this list?
A BGP withdrawl for a route which is not in the routing table does not
cause the router to update any routes and is hence not a routing update.
I.e. removing a route that isn't there is not very processor intensive.
Justin Newton
Network Architect
Erol's Internet Services
