[c-nsp] Delay BGP peer session

[Seth Mattinen]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 
>> Alex Balashov wrote:
>>> Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there any way to force a delay on a BGP session from establishing
>>>> when a link comes up? Say, for example, if a link flaps and
>>>> fast-external-fallover takes it down we should wait X minutes before
>>>> trying to bring the session back up.
>>>
>>> I would guess that flap dampening would be the proper solution.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think it can dampen the whole table and suppress announcements,
>> can it? I've never tried that.
> 
> I believe IP Event Dampening is the knob you seek.
> 

Very interesting. I'll have to play around with that.

~Seth