[33486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP keepalive/holdtime at GigE exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan O'Connell)
Fri Jan 12 17:05:54 2001
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:03:28 +0000
From: Ryan O'Connell <ryan@complicity.co.uk>
To: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010112220328.A20750@look-to-windward.complicity.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <20010112130445.L18924@bloomcounty.org>; from clay@bloomcounty.org on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:04:45PM -0800
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:04:45PM -0800, Clayton Fiske wrote:
> With regard to your earlier comments about busy routers "pausing"
> BGP, perhaps this is something that can be investigated at a vendor
> software level.
[snip]
> In the interest of stability, I
> would certainly want keepalives to be processed ahead of routing
> updates.
BGP is TCP-based, so there is no (easy) way of ensuring that the
keepalives go to the top of the queue without possibly corrupting
the routing data itself.
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