
Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!
Clemens Mosig
Based in Berlin - Germany
Clemens studies Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin and works at the Internet Technologies research lab, advised by Matthias Wählisch. He likes to understand BGP deployment by designing and conducting active and passive measurements. His most recent work focuses on understanding BGP Churn. More
• 9 min read
BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…