July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 7m
English
All routing protocols have timers, used to determine when an apparently inactive peering relationship should be dropped and the routes learned through that peering relationship should be no longer used. Routing protocols also have timers to prevent a network from never converging when faced with rapid changes in the network topology. We will examine both types of timers in the following sections.
The hold and keepalive timers in BGP provide a simple test for peer aliveness. Since a BGP speaker only transmits information when its local databases change, there are no regular messages transmitted between two BGP peers. If a BGP speaker fails, there's no reason its peers should know it has failed, since a failure ...
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