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--- "Stewart, William C (Bill), SALES" <[email protected]> wrote: > If what's failing is an overload of BGP routes or > something, > that's different - and sometimes the load on the > system shrinks > as components fail, but sometimes that just makes > everything > flap all at once, increasing load and delaying > convergence. I seem to recall a massive routing failure in October which was caused by BGP getting imported to a major ISPs IGP... The core ${VENDOR 1}routers were able to handle the influx of routes, but the edge ${VENDOR 2} routers could not handle the influx - so the failure didn't exactly cascade, but did more of a ripple. However, the reloading of all of the edge devices increased the BGP instability. -David Barak -fully RFC 1925 compliant- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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