Re: BGP hold timer on IX LAN

2015-10-27 Thread Colin Johnston
low bgp timers usually done to allow faster hsrp failover result colin Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Oct 2015, at 08:20, Nick Hilliard wrote: > >> On 27/10/2015 08:31, marcel.durega...@yahoo.fr wrote: >> I'm asking because we see more and more peering partners which force the >> hold timer to a

Re: BGP hold timer on IX LAN

2015-10-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/10/2015 08:31, marcel.durega...@yahoo.fr wrote: > I'm asking because we see more and more peering partners which force the > hold timer to a lower value, and when BGP negotiate the timer, the lowest > hold timer is the winner. You need to be careful with this. On larger IXPs, there will be

Re: BGP hold timer on IX LAN

2015-10-27 Thread Nikolay Shopik
BFD is your friend. Yes it's require both parties to understand it but it much better than 30sec hold time. BIRD already have support for BFD > On 27 окт. 2015 г., at 10:31, "marcel.durega...@yahoo.fr" > wrote: > > Hello, > > As all of us know BGP was designed for scalability, thus slow conve