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### Instruction:
What is the purpose of BGP route dampening?
### Response:
Route dampening minimizes the propagation of flapping routes across an internetwork. Criteria can be defined to identify poorly behaved routes which are suppressed. Dampening parameters include a penalty value, a suppression limit, a reuse limit, and a maximum suppress time.
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