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.