[97573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: it was damp in belleview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Sun Jun 24 02:59:18 2007
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:58:21 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku+nanog@ytti.fi>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <467D64D0.9040902@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On (2007-06-23 08:22 -1000), Randy Bush wrote:
> for those wishing historical perspective on route flap damping, document
> ripe-378 (may 2006) says
> i.e., it's time to turn it off. you are damaging your customers and
> others' customers.
I've always thought that damping as an idea is a good one, but implementation
is done horribly wrong. I want my customers to get best of the stable
paths, i.e. I'd like to see method to dynamically worsen routes in path
selection that are unstable, local-pref would be the obvious choice for me.
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++ytti
