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Making Route Flap Damping Usable
draft-ymbk-rfd-usable-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Cristel Pelsser , Keyur Patel , Olaf Maennel , Prodosh Mohapatra , Randy Bush
Last updated 2012-06-24 (Latest revision 2011-12-22)
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Abstract

Route Flap Damping (RFD) was first proposed to reduce BGP churn in routers. Unfortunately, RFD was found to severely penalize sites for being well-connected because topological richness amplifies the number of update messages exchanged. Many operators have turned RFD off. Based on experimental measurement, this document recommends adjusting a few RFD algorithmic constants and limits, to reduce the high risks with RFD, with the result being damping a non-trivial amount of long term churn without penalizing well-behaved prefixes' normal convergence process.

Authors

Cristel Pelsser
Keyur Patel
Olaf Maennel
Prodosh Mohapatra
Randy Bush

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