[AusNOG] BFD on transit connections

[Tom Paseka]

Just configure the lower timer :) (10/30 seconds being all that Junipers
will accept). BGP will negotiate the lowest possible time between peers.

-Tom

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I have been in the process of trying to BFD all my BGP peers recently, to
> bring down my convergence times.
>
> Interestingly I deal with 4 providers, so far I have had 2 who will not
> implement nor plan to. 1 who is thinking about it and 1 who was ready to
> turn it on.
>
> This has raised my curiosity a bit. When I asked the list about low values
> for BGP keepalive/hold, I got the impression some (few) used low values.
> But most used the default 3m.
>
> 3min seem like an eternity in networking time.
>
> So am I being a bad netizen asking for BFD or low (10/30) BGP timers ?
>
> Alex
>
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