On Wed, Oct 18, 2000, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:35:46PM -0400, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > Now what I'm trying to figure out is why anyone would want this value to > > NOT be set to zero. When would you not want route flushes and route > > changes to take immediate effect? > > Mostly to avoid total breakdown of a BGP4 router when routes are flapping. Isn't that what route dampening is for? The routing daemon would handle this situation to avoid the total breakdown. JE - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
