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Re: What Worked - What Didn't

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lewinski)
Mon Sep 17 17:49:39 2001

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:38:34 -0600
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> But speaking of BGP: what concerns me is the very long timeouts. When
a
> BGP router loses power, it takes minutes for the peer on the other
side of
> the connection to notice something is wrong and reroute the traffic.

This IOS command should remedy that under most circumstances:

bgp fast-external-fallover


Mike


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