Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

Sat May 23 00:10:36 UTC 2009

> If you want to converge a little fast than BGP holdtimes here
> and the fiber link is directly between the routers, you might
> look at something akin to Cisco's "bgp fast-external-fallover",
> which immediately resets the session if the link layer is
> reset or lost.
> 

Also things to consider: BFD for BGP and UDLD will help identify link failures faster. (If all of your equipment supports it, YMMV, etc).

Deepak