20 Dec
2004
20 Dec
'04
9:14 a.m.
Jerry,
i've been wondering, since most people aren't using a 25xx class router for bgp anymore, and the forwarding planes are able to cope more when 'bad things(tm)' happen, what the value of dampening is these days.
ie: does dampening cause more problems than it tries to solve/avoid these days.
- jared
I don't know what takes more router resources; dampening enabled doing the dampening calculations, or no dampening and constantly churning the BGP table. I would assume dampening generally saves router resources, or operators wouldn't chose to enable it.
another point to consider is the number of affected routers. Yakov.