Re: OT: BGP failing to establish a peer. Any ideas?

> PS
> Marko, for the keepalive, the BGP speakers normally negotiate the minimum
> value advertised as the common denominator. I haven't seen that causing any
> problems to BNT switches.. yet ;)

Sure they do, unless one side refuses to negotiate too low of a value... ;-)

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/iproute_bgp/command/reference/irg_bgp4.html#wp1144312

See "min-holdtime" :-)

Then again, we know this isn't the case here, as the default timers were tried.

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