[33487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP keepalive/holdtime at GigE exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Fiske)
Fri Jan 12 17:25:14 2001
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:23:10 -0800
From: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010112220328.A20750@look-to-windward.complicity.co.uk>; from ryan@complicity.co.uk on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:03:28PM +0000
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:03:28PM +0000, Ryan O'Connell wrote:
> 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.
But perhaps TCP connection handling (for existing connections anyway,
so as not to make the router more susceptible to a SYN flood) could
be bumped up, at which point you could hand off routing updates into
one queue and keepalives into another.
I know it's much easier for me to say than it would be to code, but
it certainly seems doable and it sure could be a lifesaver during
routing storms.
-c
