Re: BGP Timers and Slow Convergence 101

Here's a twist. Configure one of your peers in such a way that peering
is not established if the keepalive timer is below 30 seconds.

[ answer to your WB question - yes, yes they do :-) ]

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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 15:28, Darby Weaver <darby.weaver_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Umm...
>
> BGP Timers - Love em, Hate em, and then... Get over it and just Change Em!
>
> You can change the BGP Timers on either side of the peer link.
> The BGP Timers will be agreed up during the negotiating process and then the
> peer with the lowest timer configuration will be used at the timer values
> for the BGP peer link.
>
> Kewl?
>
> Easy as pie!
>
> Doesn't anyone's workbook besides mine cover this kind of thing?
>
> :)
>
> Darby
>
>
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