Route Flap Damping Deployment Status Survey

Shishio Tsuchiya , Seiichi Kawamura , Randy Bush and Cristel Pelsser

June 2012
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Abstract

BGP Route Flap Damping [RFC2439] is a mechanism that targets route stability. It penalyzes routes that flap with the aim of reducing CPU load on the routers. But it has side-effects. Thus, in 2006, RIPE recommended not to use Route Flap Damping (see [RIPE-378]). Now, some researchers propose to turn RFD, with less aggressive parameters, back on [draft-ymbk-rfd-usable]. This document describes results of a survey conducted among service provider on their use of BGP Route Flap Damping.

Publication Details

Publication Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
June 2012
Volume & Issue
No. draft-shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey-05
Publisher
Internet Engineering Task Force

BibTeX Citation

@techreport{shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey-05,
	title        = {Route Flap Damping Deployment Status Survey},
	author       = {Shishio Tsuchiya and Seiichi Kawamura and Randy Bush and Cristel Pelsser},
	year         = 2012,
	month        = jun,
	day          = 21,
	publisher    = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
	number       = {draft-shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey-05},
	url          = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-shishio-grow-isp-rfd-implement-survey-05},
	note         = {Work in Progress},
	institution  = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
	type         = {Internet-Draft},
	abstract     = {BGP Route Flap Damping {[}RFC2439{]} is a mechanism that targets route stability. It penalyzes routes that flap with the aim of reducing CPU load on the routers. But it has side-effects. Thus, in 2006, RIPE recommended not to use Route Flap Damping (see {[}RIPE-378{]}). Now, some researchers propose to turn RFD, with less aggressive parameters, back on {[}draft-ymbk-rfd-usable{]}. This document describes results of a survey conducted among service provider on their use of BGP Route Flap Damping.},
	groups       = {IETF Drafts},
	keywords     = {BGP, Route Flap Damping},
	pagetotal    = 10
}

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