Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?
Tony Barber
tonyb at uunet.pipex.com
Fri Sep 6 07:30:13 UTC 1996
Avi Freedman wrote:
>
>> It seems the problem is number of flaps, etc. Doesn't it make sense to
>> simply start dropping the routes that flap the most? Of course this will
>> be biased in the /24 space but at least the rationale/solution maps
>> identically to a solid reason.
>>
>> To what extent is this flapping due to basically static information being
>> propogated? One solution would be to nail these routes ...
>>
>> Cheers, peter
>
>I know that Sprint was talking about doing this (damping /24s harder
>than /23s harder than ...).
>
>Is it implemented or about to be implemented?
>
>Avi
>
We implement it into AS1849 (UUNETPIPEX) (UK) in a streamlined form and it
works fine. Doesn't reduce the number of routes in the table though :-(
Haven't been effected by any route flaps just recently though :)
--Tony
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