Re: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

[Danny McPherson <danny () tcb net>]

On May 25, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Iljitsch van Beijnum:
>
> > 30 60 isn't a good choice because that means that after 30.1  
> > seconds a
> > keepalive comes in and then after 60.0 seconds the session will  
> > expire
> > while the second one would be there in 60.1 seconds.
>
> Wouldn't the underlying TCP retry sooner than that?

I suspect that given update messages serve as implicit
keepalives, it's _extremely rare that an actual keepalive
message is needed in global routing environments.

-danny