RE: IP Event Dampening

From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2006 - 15:44:39 ART


IMHO, I'd pick a suppress value of 1 more than 2x the penalty in this case.
Instead of 3000, use 2001. Even sliding down, statistically with 3 flaps in
30 seconds, no matter where on the scale of half-life you are, that will
always work.

HTH,

 
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
#153, CISSP, et al.
CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-J
IPExpert VP - Curriculum Development
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
anthony.sequeira@thomson.com
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 2:02 AM
To: dukelondon@gmail.com
Cc: hitesh@att.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: IP Event Dampening

I labbed this one up as this post suggests and learned that he was indeed
correct about how the penalty moves....I am so sorry that I do not have time
right now to research the definitive answer <again> - but I think you should
have all the info you need now to ensure that you will get the dampening
behavior required given certain values.

I suggest you lab this up. With "dampen 30 1000 3000 60" the interface will
not dampen in 30 seconds with 3 flaps..

True, the half life is when the value is decayed by half its original
penalty. But since its an exponentially decaying algorithm, the penalty
begins decaying IMMEDIATELY.

What this means is, if you flap the interface with dampening (dampen 30 1000
3000 60) you will see the penalty at 1000 immediately, but then querying the
dampening for the interface again will indicate another value like 893. And
again, 773, etc. until at 30 seconds the value will be 500 for the first
flap.

If you flap it a second time then the penalty will be the original decayed
penalty value at that moment PLUS the new penalty value (e.g.
1000). And the exponential decay begins again. Query the interface and you
will see the penalty between 500 and 1500 and decaying fast. The same holds
true for a third flap.

In short, a suppress value of 3000, as configured, will not dampen the
interface with 3 flaps in 30 seconds because the cumulative penalty will be
< 3000 at the half-life; guaranteed!

________________________________

From: Salman Abbas [mailto:dukelondon@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 1:40 AM
To: Sequeira, Anthony (NETg)
Cc: hitesh@att.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: IP Event Dampening

Hi Hitesh,

Thanks a bunch bro.

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the thread but what should the answer be, taking Hitesh's reply
and the thread into consideration?

I mean dampening 15 1000 ___ 60 .

Pls advise,

Thanks and Regards,

Salman

On 11/18/06, anthony.sequeira@thomson.com <anthony.sequeira@thomson.com
> wrote:

Careful - this feature does not work like you think - here is an excellent
thread from the archives on the subject. . . note that the biggest surprise
is how the feature uses an exponentially decaying algorithm - jeez.....

http://adserver.groupstudy.com/archives/ccielab/200605/msg01011.html

Anthony J. Sequeira
#15626

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com ] On Behalf Of
SAVJANI, HITESH, WWCS
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:54 PM
To: Salman Abbas; ccie >> Cisco certification;
Duane.Fletcher@morganstanley.com
Subject: RE: IP Event Dampening

Salman,

Default value for the penalty is 1000 which can not be changed. Yes, it
increases by 1000 every time it flaps. You are probably looking at the
default suppress value which is 2000 also. However you can configure the

suppress-threshold value which will decide when to suppress a route. You can
read more about it on the following link

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123tcr/1

23tip2r/ip2_c1gt.htm#wp1093971

I am sure someone else on the group can add to this.

HTH,

Hitesh Savjani
CCIE # 17151

________________________________

From: Salman Abbas [mailto: dukelondon@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 1:57 PM
To: SAVJANI, HITESH, WWCS; ccie >> Cisco certification;
Duane.Fletcher@morganstanley.com
Subject: Re: IP Event Dampening

Hi Fletcher,

I'm not the Sal Abbas who used to work at AT&T.

Hi Hitesh,

Thanks a bunch for your reply. The default value for "value to start
suppressing an interface" is 2000. I've checked that on the router.
When you say in 2 flaps, it'll become 2000, do you mean it increases by 1000
every time theres a flap? Is this a documented value somewhere or can I see
this on the router? If it starts from 0, why do I always see a value of 2000
in my sh dampening interface output?What do you think the answer should be
in the light of this fact?

Regards,

Salman

On 11/18/06, SAVJANI, HITESH, WWCS <hitesh@att.com> wrote:

       Salman,

       I think if you want your interface to be suppressed after two flaps
then
       you should set the value to be 2000.
       Reason for that is it will start from 0 penalty & in 2 flaps will
bring
       it to 2000.

       HTH,

       Hitesh Savjani
       CCIE # 17151

       -----Original Message-----
       From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
       Salman Abbas
       Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:36 AM
       To: ccie >> Cisco certification
       Subject: IP Event Dampening

       Hi guys,

       I want RIP to stop interface e0/0 on my router from participating in
       routing
       if it flaps 2 times in a *15* second period. what dampening values
will
       I
       have to set to achieve this?

       interface e0/0
       dampening *15* 1000 __ 60. I think the answer would fit at the third
       place
       (value to start supressing an interface) in the dampening command.
       However,
       Im not sure. Please help.

       Thanks a bunch in advance!!!

       Cheers!

       Salman



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