The example in the Cisco Press book rather.  The half-life actually will
determine the rate of decay.  As I said, the time that it takes for the
penalty to decay by half is the half-life time.  Therefore, the half-life
determines the decay rate.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Joe Astorino <[email protected]>wrote:

> Actually, that is not correct.  The half-life is the amount of time it
> takes for the penalty to decay by half of the original value.  For instance
> -- If you have a penalty of 1000 on a prefix assigned, with a default
> half-life of 15 minutes, than after 15 minutes the penalty will be at 500.
>
> The specific example that was brought up on cisco.com appears to be
> inaccurate.  Don't worry, it's not the first time : )
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Patrice Ngassam <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  15 minutes is the time it will take to decrease the penalty to zero, in
>> 7.5 minutes the penalty will reach half of its initial value. half-time has
>> more to do with Penalty than Time.
>>
>> *Patrice Ngassam*
>> *Ceritified Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:35:19 -0400
>> To: [email protected]
>> CC: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] BGP Route Dampening
>>
>>
>> Well, what is the original penalty value given?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Cristian Nedelcu <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> "The rate of decrease in the penalty is a function of the half-life. The 
>> half-life
>> is the amount of time for the penalty to decrease to half of its current
>> value. If the half-life is 15 minutes, the penalty decreases to 500 in 7.5
>> minutes."
>> From BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook
>>
>> why 7,5 min and not 15 min ?
>>
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