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I understand BGP flapping to be announcements followed by withdraws over a short period. I am seeing a peer with a large number of announcements and the normal number of withdraws. Is there a term to describe what I am seeing? I'd like to understand what is happening, but I've been looking for more info and can't seem to find anything. I suspect I am just not using the right words to search.There is a term, it's called "broken". There's another term for that behavior. It's called "compliant". There are a number of good implementation reasons why it is reasonable for an implementation to announce a route that it has already announced (e.g., peer groups). Admittedly announcing thousands of times an hour does NOT seem reasonable, but 'never' is not a requirement of the BGP spec either. Tony
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