Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov () juniper net>]

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.