survey on BGP damping

P:olish Telecom do not have damping switched on.

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Beichuan Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are conducting a survey of BGP damping deployment and would greatly
> appreciate if you could take a few minutes to answer the following
> questions.  There are a number of interesting results and various
> recommendations for damping settings.  However, we have found only limited
> information on who does(does not) deploy damping and what parameter
> settings are selected in practice.
> 
> If you are willing to participate, please send replies directly to us.
> We will collect the results (removing any private information regarding
> specific sites) and post the results to the list.  Thanks!
> 
> ---
> beichuan
> 
> 
> (1) Does your AS have BGP route flap damping turned on?
>        * Yes
>        * No (please skip to comments)
> 
> (2) What damping parameters do you use?
>        * Cisco Default
>        * Juniper Default
>        * RIPE recommendation
>        * Customized
> 
> (3) On which links do you enable damping?
>        * To customers only
>        * To providers
>        * To peers
>        * All the above
> 
> (4) Comments
> Please tell us more such as:
> 
> What kind of network are you managing (any specific names will be removed
>   in the published study)?
> Why (why not) do you enable damping?
> If you enable damping, why did you choose your current parameters?
> Has your site seen specific problems that were prevented by damping
>  (or caused by damping)?
> 
> We welcome any other comments you feel are relevant. Thanks!
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