[c-nsp] BGP MRAI

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

> 
> For faster convergence, our service provider suggested to disable the
BGP
> min advertisement interval (set it to 0).
> 
> Is this really a good idea, even as we receive the full Internet table
?

the main benefit of MRAI in the Internet context is to reduce the number
of updates/withdraws following routing changes in an more densly meshed
AS environment. I think [1] examined this.
If you are AS is more on the edge of the Internet, reducing the MRAI
should have no negative side effects.

	oli

[1]
http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2000/conf/paper/sigcomm2000-5-2.p
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