Administrator Guide
To disable route dampening, use the no bgp dampening [half-life reuse suppress max-
suppress-time] [route-map map-name] command.
Parameters
half-life
(OPTIONAL) Enter the number of minutes after which the Penalty is decreased.
After the router assigns a Penalty of 1024 to a route, the Penalty is decreased by
half after the half-life period expires. The range is from 1 to 45. The default is 15
minutes.
reuse
(OPTIONAL) Enter a number as the reuse value, which is compared to the flapping
route’s Penalty value. If the Penalty value is less than the reuse value, the flapping
route is once again advertised (or no longer suppressed). The range is from 1 to
20000. The default is 750.
suppress
(OPTIONAL) Enter a number as the suppress value, which is compared to the
flapping route’s Penalty value. If the Penalty value is greater than the suppress
value, the flapping route is no longer advertised (that is, it is suppressed). The
range is from 1 to 20000. The default is 2000.
max-suppress-
time
(OPTIONAL) Enter the maximum number of minutes a route can be suppressed.
The default is four times the half-life value. The range is from 1 to 255. The default
is 60 minutes.
route-map
map-
name
(OPTIONAL) Enter the keyword route-map then the name of a configured route
map.
Only match commands in the configured route map are supported.
Defaults Disabled.
Command Modes
● ROUTER BGP
● ROUTER BGP-address-family
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.8.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.7.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
Usage
Information
If you enter the bgp dampening command, the default values for half-life, reuse, suppress,
and max-suppress-time are applied. The parameters are position-dependent; therefore, if you
configure one parameter, configure the parameters in the order they appear in the CLI.
Related
Commands
show ip bgp dampened-paths — views the BGP paths.
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