What Worked - What Didn't

Mon Sep 17 21:39:28 UTC 2001

>>> When a BGP router loses power, it takes minutes for the peer on the
>>> other side of the connection to notice something is wrong and reroute
>>> the traffic.
>> as i do not see this in rfc 1771 or draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-1[23].txt, i
>> suspect that this is implementation specific.
> "The suggested value for the Hold Time is 90 seconds.  The suggested value
> for the KeepAlive timer is 30 seconds."

the hello timer != noticing an interface has gone hard down, which i thought
was your original point.

randy