[c-nsp] Best Practices for quickly removing routes when BGP peer drops

[Mark Tinka]

On 10/12/2025 16:29, Shawn L via cisco-nsp wrote:
> We currently have a couple of Internet feeds (full tables) and peering
> sessions to most of the major streaming networks, etc.  When our peering
> sessions go down for whatever reason (lately it's been fiber cuts) it takes
> a couple of minutes for our routers to process all of the routing changes
> and for streaming sessions to start up again.
>
> I'm wondering what others are doing to try to reduce this time.  In the
> past I was always told that reducing the BGP timers was a bad idea.  Is
> that still the case?  BFD?

In my IP days, we enjoyed the use of BGP-PIC, BGP Multipath and BGP 
Add-Paths to make this problem never appear.

Not sure what folk are doing now, but it's still possible that 
combination could get you restful nights.

Mark.