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Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov () juniper net>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:14:10 -0800
Jerry,
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. - jaredI don't know what takes more router resources; dampening enabled doing the dampening calculations, or no dampening and constantly churning the BGP table. I would assume dampening generally saves router resources, or operators wouldn't chose to enable it.
another point to consider is the number of affected routers. Yakov.
Current thread:
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief, (continued)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief just me (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Steve Gibbard (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Joe Maimon (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Bill Woodcock (Dec 16)
- Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief) Jared Mauch (Dec 16)
- Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief) Jerry Pasker (Dec 16)
- Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 16)
- Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief) Jared Mauch (Dec 16)
- Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief) Jared Mauch (Dec 16)
- Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief) Yakov Rekhter (Dec 20)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief just me (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief just me (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief just me (Dec 16)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Michael . Dillon (Dec 17)
- Re: verizon.net and other email grief Simon Waters (Dec 17)