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BGP Session Timeout

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saqib Ilyas)
Mon Apr 30 03:18:59 2007

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:17:12 +0500
From: "Saqib Ilyas" <msaqib@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


I have a question regarding BGP session time outs.

Is it likely that BGP times out before underlying IP topology reconvergences
after a link/node failure? Do service providers ever set such low values of
BGP timeouts that BGP timeout will occur?

If not, what else may cause a BGP session to time out?

-- 
Muhammad Saqib Ilyas
PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering
Lahore University of Management Sciences

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