Subsecond convergence in OSPF

From: Venkataramanaiah.R (vramanaiah@gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 06:18:42 ART


Hi,

We are working on a subsecond Routing convergence project and we have the
following dilemma...

We have WAN links from 2 service providers/technology.. Two links from DWDM
and two MPLS links at each site..

Basically, A single link failure out of these 4 links isnt a issue.. Network
converges really fast.. However,we have trouble when the entire DWDM is
blacked out; ie., 2 DWDM links go down at the same time...

Basically we have the following timers

LSA - Timers

Initial Start - 0 ms
Hold time - 5 secs
Max wait - 20 secs

SPF throttle timers

Inital Start - 50 ms
Hold time - 10 secs
Max wait - 20 secs..

basically, with these timers, the change is detect instantly and
communicated by the routers; however detecting this multiple order failure
isnt recovering for 5 to 10 secs; obviously due to these timers.After the
first change detectection, there is a minimum hold time 5 to 10 secs, which
is causing this delay..

We dont want to reduce these Hold time to subsecond, to ensure stability..

Is there a way out to overcome this situation..?

Regards
-Venkat



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