[c-nsp] bgp holdtime adjustment

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, John Elliot wrote:

> It is rare for either connection to go down (Maybe once every few months), but in each instance, no, the port is not going down.

The mechanism you want to investigate is BFD to check if the BGP neighbor 
is reachable, not lowering BGP hold timers. BFD might give you anything 
from 100 ms to 3 seconds of detection time depending on platform, changing 
BGP hold timers to less than ~10 seconds is usually unreliable.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se