On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, John W. Stewart III wrote:
excessive rates of bona fide routing updates *can* be a problem. it's called route flap. and we've got route flap dampening to reduce the scope of such events
what we've been talking about very recently on this list is the high rate of withdrawls that have been seen. specifically, e.g., withdrawls from RouterA to RouterB for networks that RouterA never announced to RouterB. this is not a route flap .. it is just a superfluous withdrawl and causes no operational problems. however, some folks were tracking the number of withdrawls and didn't like the large number, so the vendor was informed and the code was changed. it's a good and appropriate thing that the behavior was changed, but that doesn't mean that it was a bug and doesn't mean that it was causing any problems
Can you specify the bug/fix number for Cisco so we all can check to see that we have it installed? -Hank
/jws
0) Is this a bug, does it cause any problem whatsoever?
If I'm not mistaken, lots of routers have had performance problems caused by excessive rates of routing updates.
Or didI misread various previous messages to this list?
I've looked at the Cisco page, and a search on "BGP, withdrawals" does not find any mention of the bug fix release. So, I have some pointed