Re: why would you want /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/min_delay to not be zero?

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 14:48:52 EST


On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:35:46PM -0400, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> Now what I'm trying to figure out is why anyone would want this value to
> NOT be set to zero. When would you not want route flushes and route
> changes to take immediate effect?

Mostly to avoid total breakdown of a BGP4 router when routes are flapping.

-Andi
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