Route Flap Damping

• Route flap

  • Going up and down of path or change in attribute
    • BGP WITHDRAW followed by UPDATE = 1 flap
    • eBGP neighbour going down/up is NOT a flap
  • Ripples through the entire Internet
  • Wastes CPU

• Damping aims to reduce scope of route flap propagation

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