BGP keepalive/holdtime at GigE exchange

Fri Jan 12 22:03:28 UTC 2001

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:04:45PM -0800, Clayton Fiske wrote:
> With regard to your earlier comments about busy routers "pausing"
> BGP, perhaps this is something that can be investigated at a vendor
> software level.
[snip]
> In the interest of stability, I
> would certainly want keepalives to be processed ahead of routing
> updates.

BGP is TCP-based, so there is no (easy) way of ensuring that the
keepalives go to the top of the queue without possibly corrupting
the routing data itself.

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