[c-nsp] BGP timer selection with DISA

[Pete Lumbis]

In my experience this would be good. I would never suggest anyone run
anything lower than 1/3 (and even that makes me squirm in my chair). If you
want something faster look at BFD.

-Pete


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Chuck Church <chuckchurch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone,
>
>         Looking at adjusting our BGP neighbor keepalive/dead timers for
> connection to DISA.  Our standard site config is 2 edge routers, each with
> a
> DISA circuit/peer and iBGP between the two routers of ours.  What are
> sensible timer settings for our environment?  Our router CPUs tend to run
> pretty low (even though they are Sup720 and ISR or ISR G2 at small sites -
> under 20%) and circuits tend to average fairly low utilization (under 50%)
> over long periods.  Full DISA table is under 20,000 prefixes, so I don't
> anticipate CPU issues during neighbor establishment.  Was thinking 5/20 for
> DISA eBGP peers, and 3/12 for iBGP between our two.  Too aggressive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck Church
>
>
>
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