Hi all,
I'm currently getting started out with BGP so if I'm asking
the obvious,
please forgive my ignorance.
On the topic of BGP convergence, may I ask what are the
current best
practices for ensuring rapid link failure detection -
especially when
dealing with an interface that is connected to 3rd party L2
infrastructure? e.g. an interface connected to an EBGP peer
via Metro-E
As far as I'm aware, the most commonly used method to
minimize link
failure detection time is to tune the keepalive/hold timers.
I
understand that there are alternatives to this such as BFD
and next hop
tracking - but support for this is limited on certain
platforms.
I have looked through this presentation from APNIC 21.
http://www.apnic.net/meetings/21/d
ocs/sigs/routing/routing-pres-hughes-bgp.pdf
What do you guys think of the recommendation for timers? (5s
and 15s for
keepalive and hold timers respectively). However, since the
presentation
is more than a year old, has BFD become a better solution to
this?
Looking forward to your suggestions.
Thanks
--
ANG Kah Yik (bangky)
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