25 Jan
1995
25 Jan
'95
5:56 p.m.
In message <199501251722.MAA18055@tiny.sprintlink.net>, Sean Doran writes:
| >Routing flaps considered harmful... | A while ago Curtis proposed a scheme for holddowns that | has a property that a holddown time associated with | a route increases with the frequency of this route | flapping -- so that frequently flapping routes getting | progressively long timeouts.
This is a good idea, if a bit of a gross and ugly hack at one aspect of the problem (frequent flaps of one specific set of prefixes). There are also ways of helping out right now that aren't dependent on implementation changes to router software and are better general fixes for the sheer number of flaps, imho.
Before calling it an ugly hack- Have you read the proposal? Curtis