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This document describes the Fec Dampening feature. When hardware FEC / ECMP resources usage go above the platform limit, Ale (HW Abstraction layer ) deletes some routes in the anticipation of freeing up some more hardware FEC resources to allow newly created FEC to get programmed. The above logic of deleting/unprogramming the route may lead to unnecessary traffic drop in the following cases of transient FEC resources overflow.

This feature provides the ability to classify and display misbehaving routes into the following : 1) Routes which are