Re: OT - BGP Problem

If your using Cisco devices the hold time is 180 secs do you not get down notifications?

I think you have Ethernet in between the CE & PE's in this regard L2 remains up but you most definitely should be losing the L3 routes & iBGP should converge to use the viable exit

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BR
Tony
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On 27 Jun 2013, at 14:05, gaston brait <gbrait_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> I work for a company with 2 datacenter connected via a dark fiber and they
> have an IBGP peership between them.Both datacenter have EBGP peers to 2
> different carriers. Carrier A is the preferred one.The problem is that we have
> had several incidents where carrier A has problems on their cloud, but the BGP
> peer with us never goes down and we continue to recieve prefix from them.When
> this happens we lose all internet connectivity and we need to manually switch
> to carrier B.Is there any way to automate this process? Maybe track an
> internet route and if it is unreachable bring the peer down?
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Gaston
> 
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