[42545] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What Worked - What Didn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Sep 17 17:53:30 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:39:28 -0700
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>>> 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.
>> as i do not see this in rfc 1771 or draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-1[23].txt, i
>> suspect that this is implementation specific.
> "The suggested value for the Hold Time is 90 seconds. The suggested value
> for the KeepAlive timer is 30 seconds."
the hello timer != noticing an interface has gone hard down, which i thought
was your original point.
randy
