apparently the obvious first step goes a long way:
"most route flap could be avoided by not doing any kind of dynamic routing
over circuits connecting single-homed sub-networks to backbones"
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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:08:56 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@alink.net>
To: end2end-interest@ISI.EDU,
nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Better flap damping algorithm
The drafts are at:
http://www.civd.com/~avg/flap-rfc.txt (text version)
http://www.civd.com/~avg/flap-rfc.ps (PostScript)
PostScript version is recommended (nice pictures :)
I would appreciate comments and corrections (spelling, grammar, style too);
please do not send them to the mailing lists, but directly to me.
Thanks!
--vadim