[c-nsp] How to set BGP commun. to none then to a value
    Saku Ytti 
    saku+cisco-nsp at ytti.fi
       
    Thu Aug 11 14:05:08 EDT 2005
    
    
  
On (2005-08-11 19:24 +0200), Alexander Koch wrote:
 
> We have had this discussion on IRC (I remember), yet... when
> you pass all the community information your prefixes are
> dampened much quicker. Been there, diagnosed it, did not do
> it any further. It is surely good and useable and a good
> thing[tm], but imagine the LINX go down and you tag LINX
> different than PARIX, and that is a change. Now with a
> prefix flapping you update your best prefix you send to
> the customer. Depending on your setup more than once even,
> whatever your architecture is.
 I personally don't like dampening, I think it's cons outweight
it's pros. Version of dampening where route gets eg. metric/local-pref
increased would be interesting to experiment with.
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