[c-nsp] BGP timers

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Uddin, Tahir
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:57 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] BGP timers
>
> Hi
>
> When connecting a CE to a PE, is there a minimum recommended BGP hold
> down timer. I am currently using 90 seconds with both of my carriers
> but
> it is causing applications to time out when there is a failure in one
> of
> the carriers network or if a local loop goes down. One of the
> carriers
> ruled out going down to 15 seconds, said it was too low.
>

If your IOS supports EEM and IP SLA, you could set up object tracking for the next-hop and configure EEM to shutdown the BGP session when a failure occurs.

-evt