Dampening – Deployment
Calculated parameters:
max-penalty – The maximum penalty a route may have that will allow the penalty to decay to reuse-limit within max-suppress-time
max-penalty = reuse-limit * 2^(max-suppress-time/half-life)
If half-life is 30, reuse-limit is 800, and max-suppress-time is 60 then the max-penalty would be 3200. If we allowed the penalty to reach 3201 it would be impossible for the penalty to decay to 800 within 60 minutes.
IOS will generate a warning message if the max-penalty is above 20,000 or less than the suppress-limit.