Re: [RRG] BGP Graceful Restart (was Re: Geoff Huston's article ...)

[Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>]

ksriram@nist.gov wrote:
> For the purpose of damping BGP or reducing its churn, 
> another important tool that should be quite useful is the 
> BGP graceful restart (BGP-GR) mechanism (RFC 4724).

All depends on what you see as being the major factors that contribute 
to the BGP processing load in today's routing environment. Graceful 
restart is very effective, and it should be deployed ubiquitously, but 
from where I sit in the routing mesh the occasional spike I see in the 
update rate does not strike me as being a major contributor to the BGP 
update rate. Of course this is a subjective rather than a qualitative 
response and your mileage in your neck of the woods may vary!

Geoff

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