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Re: Using link congestion to control routing updates

  • From: Anders Lowinger
  • Date: Fri Dec 20 09:25:28 2002 
Stephen Sprunk wrote:

Opposite problem -- he wants to delay routing updates if the link is full.
EIGRP by default won't use more than 25/50% (I forget) of link bw, for
instance, but I'm not aware of any intentional features in other IGPs to do
this.

Both OSPF and ISIS in Cisco's have pacing, ie they will not flood LSAs/LSPs
over a certain configurable limit. Not sure about other platforms..

-A