[c-nsp] BGP timers

[Whisper]

 Ivan Pepelnjak, wrote this article on Designing Fast Converging BGP
Networks that might be of some use

http://www.nil.com/ipcorner/DesigningBGPNetworks/

There are a lot of BGP articles on his blog here:
http://blog.ioshints.info/search/label/BGP

Cheers


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Uddin, Tahir <
tahir.uddin at alliancebernstein.com> wrote:

> Hi
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> 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.
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> Thanks
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> Tahir Uddin
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