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Practical BGP
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Practical BGP

by Danny McPherson, Russ White, Sangli Srihari
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 7m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Route Churn

The combination of indeterministic multiple exit discriminator and route reflectors can cause a condition where the BGP table on a set of routers will constantly churn between two different best paths; Figure 8.12 illustrates a network in which this will occur.

Figure 8.12. A network with persistent route churn

The costs shown along each link are the interior gateway protocol costs; we'll assume the cost of the links between AS65000 and the other autonomous systems are all 5. So the interior gateway protocol cost of router E to reach 10.2.2.2 will be 23. Examining the path to 172.17.1.0/24 at the routers along the edge of AS65000, ...

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