[7950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Mar 2 23:50:35 1997
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 97 20:44 PST
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> When dampening was first being rolled out I remember one of the early
> networks that got hit was PSI's net 38/8. Treating flapping prefixes
> differently based on length has more to do with how many people scream
> when prefixes covering a large amount of address space get dampened
> than the impact of the route flap of an individual prefix on the router.
Also, it is thought that longer prefixes tend to flap more than shorter.
randy
