Juniper BGP Convergence Time

Thu May 24 03:21:27 UTC 2018

Hello again:

I've tried using the default route, adjusting bgp timers, and mutlipath.
Unfortunately, these changes haven't helped much. Juniper support hasn't
been very helpful also. Although, I think I might have found the solution.

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/topic-map/forwarding-indirect-next-hop.html

Let me know what you think.

On Tue, May 22, 2018, 4:03 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

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> On 16/May/18 18:59, Phil Lavin wrote:
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> Ask if they will configure BFD for you. I’ve not found many transit providers that will, but it’s worth a shot and it will lower failure detection to circa 1 second.
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> We've tended to shy away from it, but we have 2 customers we've done it
> for.
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> Mark.
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