[j-nsp] [c-nsp] BGP route flap damping

[Mike Johnson]

Stand up a router in your AS that is dedicated for information collection.

harbor235 ;}



On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Ajeet Bagga <bagga_ajeet at emc.com> wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Ang Kah Yik wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your opinion on the disabling of damping as a BCP.
>> Yes, this is something that we've taken into consideration.
>>
>> However, route flap damping is still in use in a number of networks out
>> there.
>> Thus, we would like to obtain feedback on how the damping of a flap by
>> a transit provider may affect our connectivity.
>>
>
> Are you multihomed to this transit? To other upstreams? Depending on the
> RFD implementation, withdrawal triggered suppression will indeed affect your
> connectivity. For analysis of arguments against RFD, specifically how it
> applies to your case, read the sigcomm presentation, <
> http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2002/papers/routedampening.html>.
> White paper is available via the ACM portal, <
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=633047>.
>
> ~
> Ajeet Bagga
> Sr. Network Engineer
> Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Services
> EMC
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