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Re: BGP route flap damping
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:19:20 -0500
On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:28 AM, Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos wrote:
Last week we received a DoS attack which got down my BGP connections to my upstream providers (for three or four times I believe). I also belivethat event caused some routers to suppress my BGP announcement.I would appreciate suggestions on "how to proceed?" with this situation.
Remind everyone that flap dampening is no longer a good idea, and is in fact considered harmful. (Queue discussion at last RIPE.)
The problem is probably not flapping 3 times, but the amplification some people saw. (One of the reasons it was decided not to promote flap dampening at RIPE.)
Not much you can do about this in general. In your specific case, since we don't know why your sessions died, we don't know what to suggest to stop it. Perhaps change the timers with your upstream?
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- BGP route flap damping Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos (Jan 16)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 16)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos (Jan 16)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Randy Bush (Jan 16)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 16)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Kim Onnel (Jan 18)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos (Jan 16)
- Re: BGP route flap damping Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 16)
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- Re: BGP route flap damping Kotikalapudi Sriram (Jan 25)