[c-nsp] BGP timer jitter?

[Pete Lumbis]

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think it's implemented.  "SHOULD" != "MUST".



On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:28 AM, bored to death
<bored_to_death85 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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