route flap dampening

Tue Apr 28 17:50:51 UTC 2009

I see.  

Yes, I also heard that many networks have RFD enabled although it is not recommended, and 
I was wondering why that would be.  

So far from the responses, it seems to me that the reasons are:

1. to protect the network resources 
2. to confine the flapping announcements made by customers locally within your network (easier to debug)

Do you have any other reasons if you use RFD?

Thanks Kevin and everyone for the responses.

Jonathan

> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:35:10 -0600
> From: Epperson at Colorado.EDU
> To: j13park at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: route flap dampening
> 
> In general I am against route flap dampening -- however many networks 
> still have it enabled and when a customer flaps a few times and calls my 
> operations center I want to be able to clear it on *my* network rather 
> than having to tell them to call misc other network or coordinate that on 
> their behalf.
> 
>  	-Kevin (Level3)
> 
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Jonathan Park wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I was wondering how many of you use route flap dampening in your network.
> > If you have it enabled, what is the main reason?
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Jonathan

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