[114720] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri May 22 20:11:40 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:10:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: <A47AAAB1-BEDE-43B3-95FE-5A68A634BFE8@tcb.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If you want to converge a little fast than BGP holdtimes here
> and the fiber link is directly between the routers, you might
> look at something akin to Cisco's "bgp fast-external-fallover",
> which immediately resets the session if the link layer is
> reset or lost.
>=20
Also things to consider: BFD for BGP and UDLD will help identify link failu=
res faster. (If all of your equipment supports it, YMMV, etc).
Deepak
