9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead (original) (raw)
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9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead
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9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead
9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead
The BGP protocol constrains the amount of routing traffic (that is, UPDATE messages) in order to limit both the link bandwidth needed to advertise UPDATE messages and the processing power needed by the Decision Process to digest the information contained in the UPDATE messages.
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