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To: Gibbons Burke who wrote (4424)	11/20/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: brec	Read Replies (1) of 17977

It kept "flapping" (the technical term, according to our ops wizards) We interrupt this thread for a message from our More Than You Wanted to Know Dept.: When a router has a hardware or software problem that causes it to be working intermittently, it causes other routers near by on the network to have to update their routing tables each time the problem router goes down or comes up. These updates are relatively time-consuming and slow down traffic through the routers or block it entirely. The problem can propagate outwards, because a router which is too busy updating its tables due to an intermittent neighbor can't do its basic job and appears to be unavailable to its neighbors and thus becomes effectively intermittent itself. Thus a subnet can be brought down. This message has been de-geeked for your protection. We now return to our regularly-scheduled bitching about the bad June 23, 1998 closing price data for Amalgamated Steel and Raisin.

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