Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu> wrote:

This is what BGP dampening is for. Dropping a few prefixes here and there is a good way to make operational debugging of a network of any size, hell.

Dampening reduces negative effects, but there's still a potential for serious service disruption: processing a ton of new updates ties up CPU resources which in case of OFRV software can easily cause timer expiration on BGP sessions of peers border routers.

With a NOTIFY and a drop, there is a definite positive feedback that something is majorly wrong and allows people to open top level cases with vendors.

I do not think that deliberately breaking things just to attract attention of the management is a good idea. If some vendor ignores bug reports, go to a different vendor :) --vadim