Re: withdrawal propagation (was E.E. Times?)

["Justin W. Newton" <justin () erols com>]

At 12:46 PM 1/14/97 -0500, Jon Zeeff wrote:
> > 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 did I misread various previous messages to this list?

A BGP withdrawl for a route which is not in the routing table does not
cause the router to update any routes and is hence not a routing update.
I.e. removing a route that isn't there is not very processor intensive.

Justin Newton                           
Network Architect                                       
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