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Re: BGP Dampening question

  • From: Bruce Pinsky
  • Date: Tue Jul 20 13:40:49 2004

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D Train wrote:

| <<<If A is flapping THAT much, time to get another provider, or another
| local loop. If it <<<only flaps occasionally, not a big deal, the
| routers will handle it.
|
| It isn't so much that one of our links are flapping all of the time, but
| in our enterprise we have over 1000 locations, which can be 10 or 15
| circuits flapping at one given time. This is more for
| management/administration reasons, other than just wheather or not the
| router can with stand the torture. Each location is its own AS, and we
| are running EBGP between all of our ASs, internally inside our global
| AS, if that makes sense. If it were just a couple of cirucits dying on
| us, that would be fine, but we are trying to come up with some sort of
| dynamic solution so if our primary circuit is flapping, we won't be
| flopping back in forth, from our primary to our secondary, from BGP
| routes, to default route, and vice-versa, keeping our network stable .
|

Have you considered IP Event Dampening?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1829/products_feature_guide09186a00800ad25b.html



| <<<That said, I would not use flap dampening for this.
|
| If you don't recommend BGP dampening to fix our problem, what else is
| there, that I have not found or thought of yet. Is there a true dynamic
| solution to our problem?
|
| <<<yes, you can do what you want with flap dampening. Your router will
| penalize the <<<announcements from A for every time it flaps, and will
| wait until it has stopped <<<flapping for a user definable time before
| sending packets to A again.
|
| So you could still use dampening successfully, even though the bgp
| session keeps resetting. Does your peering session have to remain
| stable, with you just dampening some routes, or can your session keep
| bouncing, and it will still know to store these routes in either their
| history state, or dampening state?
|
| D-
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