Juniper BGP Convergence Time

Thu May 24 07:20:36 UTC 2018

Hey!

This feature is already enabled on MX with MPC cards.
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 ――――――― Original Message ―――――――
 From: Adam Kajtar <akajtar at wadsworthcity.org>
 Sent: 23 mai 2018 23:21 -0400
 Subject: Re: Juniper BGP Convergence Time
 To: Mark Tinka
 Cc: nanog at nanog.org

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On 16/May/18 18:59, Phil Lavin wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> We've tended to shy away from it, but we have 2 customers we've done it
>> for.
>>
>> Mark.
>>