--On Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:10 -0500 David Scott Olverson <olverson@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone was aware of a way to use the congestion of a network link to control the routing update. For example if I have a very small link that gets congested, I may want the router to withhold a routing update until link congestion falls below a certain threshold like 60% of bandwidth. Is anyone aware of anything like this available today or a technique that might accomplish something similar? You can contact me off list if this topic isn't germane.
Route flap is bad. Something like this would introduce a huge amount of route flap, and would probably just end up causing congestion ossilation. As far as I know there is nothing to do this in the 'common' routers (cisco, Juniper). Alec -- Alec H. Peterson -- ahp@hilander.com Chief Technology Officer Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com