[126336] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP and convergence time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Walster)
Wed May 12 11:03:08 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100511183657.4C01B60D@resin12.mta.everyone.net>
From: Matthew Walster <matthew@walster.org>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 16:02:01 +0100
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12 May 2010 02:36, Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
> You set the timers on your side and the two sides negotiate then select t=
he lowest timer settings. =C2=A0The BGP session automatically hard resets o=
n some equipment when changing the timers, so be aware of that.
Hold timers are negotiated in the OPEN message, I seem to remember, so
surely you *have* to hard reset the connection to get the lower
holdtime?
M
