Re: [RRG] Geoff Huston's article on BGP stability, update statistics and damp...

[HeinerHummel@aol.com]

In einer eMail vom 19.06.2007 10:56:37 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt rw@firstpr.com.au:

I learnt some interesting things, including that BGP routers
often use TCP to throttle the updates from peers to a rate they
can handle.  One reason this is done is to prevent local input
queues from taking up too much memory.

Isn't that weird ? Doesn't say this all about this  protocol?

Likewise: Some are proud about TE skills which manipulate the AS-path length by adding the same AS multiple times.

 

 

Heiner