Re: tunnels-vs-host routes and other DMM components

Hi, Alper,

Alper Yegin wrote:
>>> We know BGP is not designed for handling many rapid changes (after all
>>> non-mobile prefixes are much more stable compared to a moving MN). But
>>> of source that does not necessarily mean BGP cannot handle it. I'm not
>>> a BGP expert to confirm. It may be worth running this by the routing
>>> related WGs and collect some feedback.
>> 
>> There have been studies of the basic propagation time of an UPDATE
>> through a BGP router.  It can be done in as little as 2.4ms if the
>> timers and batching are configured properly.
>> 
> 
> A reference would be good.

See, e.g., "Measuring BGP Pass-Through Times" by Feldman, Kong, Maennel, and Tudor
http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/FKMT-MBPT-04.pdf

-Pete