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draft-ietf-idr-route-oscillation



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        RFC 3345

        Title:      Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Persistent Route
                    Oscillation Condition
        Author(s):  D. McPherson, V. Gill, D. Walton, A. Retana
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       August 2002
        Mailbox:    danny@tcb.net, vijay@umbc.edu, dwalton@cisco.com,
                    aretana@cisco.com 
        Pages:      19
        Characters: 38137
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-idr-route-oscillation-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3345.txt


In particular configurations, the BGP scaling mechanisms defined in
"BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP" and
"Autonomous System Confederations for BGP" will introduce persistent
BGP route oscillation.  This document discusses the two types of
persistent route oscillation that have been identified, describes
when these conditions will occur, and provides some network design
guidelines to avoid introducing such occurrences.

This document is a product of the Inter-Domain Routing Working Group
of the IETF.

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