Re: BGP and convergence time

["Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>]

--- matthew () walster org wrote:
From: Matthew Walster <matthew () walster org>

On 12 May 2010 02:36, Scott Weeks <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:
> You set the timers on your side and the two sides negotiate then select the lowest timer settings.  The BGP session 
> automatically hard resets on some equipment when changing the timers, so be aware of that.

Hold timers are negotiated in the OPEN message, I seem to remember, so
surely you *have* to hard reset the connection to get the lower
holdtime?
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Of course you have to reset the session or it won't communicate the change, but what I wanted was to be able to 
soft-reset at my own convenience for the valuse to take effect.  The routers we use just hard reset as soon as I typed 
the command.  :-(

scott