[944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Thu Nov 9 01:09:29 1995
To: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
cc: scharf@vix.com (Jerry Scharf), D.Mills@cs.ucl.ac.uk, michael@memra.com,
nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 1995 17:23:52 CST."
<199511082323.RAA20836@gaijin.mid.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 01:01:28 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199511082323.RAA20836@gaijin.mid.net>, Alan Hannan writes:
>
> The update I just got on the MAE-E /"Sprint" problem seems rather
> timely to the discussion.
>
> "
> We have hit the point where BGP processing on SprintLink
> routers can no longer survive moderate fall-overs.
> There is no fix for this, except:
> a/ people MUST withdraw as many prefixes as possible
> b/ the background route-flap MUST be reduced
You could also take routing from the RA route servers. This would
solve your problem. I think this was mentioned at the last NANOG
meeting so it is not a new solution either.
Curtis
