[c-nsp] Faster BGP Failover

[Seth Mattinen]

On 10/11/11 8:50 AM, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 11/10/11 16:25, Vincent Aniello wrote:
>> What can be done to reduce the amount of time it takes BGP to detect
>> the failure of an Internet connection and start routing traffic
>> through another Internet connection?
> 
> Can you be a bit more specific about the config?
> 
> This is presumably an eBGP session across a local interface?
> 
> What platform & IOS version?
> 
> eBGP sessions should, IIRC, be immediately torn down by the fast
> external fallover feature.
> 

If it's an Ethernet though that won't do much since the link is likely
always staying up/up.

~Seth