Re: Minimum Holdtime for BGP OpenBGPd in Production

2018-09-21 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Stuart, all please find my responses below, On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 11:14, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2018-09-18, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > > > I recomend using the default especially against ebgp peers. > > MikroTik in particular are known to be bad at keeping up with BGP timers. > Yes we h

Re: Minimum Holdtime for BGP OpenBGPd in Production

2018-09-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-09-18, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:11:24AM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: >> Hello all, >> I was wondering what is the lowest values of BGP holdtime that you >> recommend running in production ? > > I recomend using the default especially against ebgp peers. MikroTik in par

Re: Minimum Holdtime for BGP OpenBGPd in Production

2018-09-18 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:11:24AM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hello all, > I was wondering what is the lowest values of BGP holdtime that you > recommend running in production ? I recomend using the default especially against ebgp peers. > I would like to set them to a lower value to detect an is

Minimum Holdtime for BGP OpenBGPd in Production

2018-09-17 Thread Tom Smyth
Hello all, I was wondering what is the lowest values of BGP holdtime that you recommend running in production ? I would like to set them to a lower value to detect an issue with peers that dont support BFD quicker, but I dont want to set it to a value that would overly tax the system resources,