[76584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Dec 16 17:19:59 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:19:24 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0412161343060.27160-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:43:25PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> > If both anycast routes converges to the same broken pod somehow(damping?).
> > And troublshooting that when it only happens in ASXXXX sounds like it
> > would be a bit more difficult.
>
> That's not an anycast problem, that's just a misconfiguration.
i've been wondering, since most people aren't using a
25xx class router for bgp anymore, and the forwarding planes
are able to cope more when 'bad things(tm)' happen, what the value
of dampening is these days.
ie: does dampening cause more problems than it tries to solve/avoid
these days.
- jared
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