[c-nsp] OSPF per-prefix LFA

[Adam Vitkovsky]

Hi Mohammad,

I have never had to tune IGP to get sub 50ms LFA failover times.
The failover times have nothing to do with IGP.
Actually the switchover itself (from primary to backup path) is done in couple of usec (microseconds).
So what you need to fight against is actually the time it takes the HW to realize there's no light on the link.
As it was suggested already tuning the "carrier-delay down" to 0 is an absolute must.
    
Yes tuning: 
timers throttle lsa, 
timers lsa arrival, 
timers pacing flood 
- is vital to propagate the information across the backbone as fast as possible so BGP can switch to backup NH ASAP if primary NH is unreachable.
But that's a different story altogether.

I think it's really hard to tell what's actually going on in virtual environments.
Looks like in your case LFA is really slow so SFP kicks in sooner than LFA that's why tuning SPF got you better results.
You might want to check how your virtual environment reports link failures (at what time intervals).
Is LFA actually supported on CSR?

adam
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