In message <20020123220715.A12998@greenie.muc.de>, Gert Doering writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:53:19PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > > You could always send default to each other via BGP; that way, if the
> > > session dies the default goes away (better than static).
> >
> > Anyone else want to comment on this? How exactly do keepalives work on an
> > ethernet link if you've got a L2 device between two L3 endpoints?
>
> BGP uses keepalive packets in the TCP session. So it will know if the
> connection breaks even if the local ethernet heartbeat is still there.
You may also want to change the default timeouts to something other
then standard as the ethernet port is not guaranteed to go down if the
link somehow fails.
Think carefully before doing this ;)
- marcel
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