Study on Minium Route Advertisement Interval ..

Hi, I am studying the MRAI timer and its effects on BGP - how it affects the overall BGP convergence, route flap damping, persistent oscillations, etc. It is wrt this that i would like to know the default setting that most service providers use? Do they use the default value as provider by their

Patents, IETF and Network Operators

Hi, Network Ops folks use the IETF standards for their operations. I see lot of nifty things coming out from the IETF stable and i was wondering why those dont get patented? Why bother releasing some really good idea to IETF (i.e. open standards bodies) when the vendor could have patented it. The