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Re: Route Supression Problem

  • From: John Kristoff
  • Date: Wed Mar 12 09:09:22 2003 
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:53:03AM -0600, Jack Bates wrote:
> traffic going to them. My router shows the last BGP peer reset about that
[...]
> I've not seen reference to it, since the customer only transits through my
> network and depends on my redundancy, is it possible to hold his routes in
> the tables and keep advertising them out unless they are down for a set time
> period (ie, ignore flaps, but drop them if he's down 15-30 minutes)?

While perhaps not always an ideal solution, is it possible for the
customer to set default to you rather than having to use BGP?  You
could in turn use static routing back to them for their netblock(s).

John