[c-nsp] BGP timer jitter?
bored to death
bored_to_death85 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 21 02:28:29 EST 2010
hi everybody,
i was monitoring cisco's BGP packets and i realized my cisco's BGP keepalive
packets are being sent out exactly every 60 seconds (with no jitter - with
maximum 0.001 seconds variance).i looked at BGP main RFC (RFC4271) and it says
timers should have jitters and says:
"[...] jitter SHOULD be applied to the timers associated with
MinASOriginationIntervalTimer,
KeepaliveTimer,MinRouteAdvertisementIntervalTimer, and ConnectRetryTimer. [....]
The suggested default amount of jitter SHALL be determined by multiplying the
base value of the appropriate timer by a random factor, which is uniformly
distributed in the range from 0.75 to 1.0. A new random value SHOULD be
picked each time the timer is set."
so i wanted to know, has cisco implemented timer jitters for different timers (5
timers) of BGP? if so, do i have to do anything to activate it?
Cheers!
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