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>>> I would suggest that the largest percentage of flapping prefixes in the >>> global routing system belong to prefixes longer than /19. >> >> Hence the convention to damp differently for different lengths. See one of >> the foils in http://www.psg.com/~randy/970210.nanog/, which suggests that we >> over here start following the European lead on this. > > Also, the dampening defaults: > > bgp dampening <halflife-time> <reuse> <suppress> <maximum-suppress-time> > > <halflife-time> default is 15 minutes > <reuse-value> default is 750 > <suppress-value> default is 2000 (I thought it was 1000, but docs indicate > otherwise) > <max-suppress-time> default 4 times halflife-time Wellllll. To be tactless ..... If the ops are heading toward the above-described convention, would it not be cool if the router vendors made it the default? randy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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