The overall bandwidth used by hello packets is negligible. The only thing I'd worry about is if the routers are really busy you may have premature failovers.This is probably not very likely but would be the only valid argument I could see against changing timers default value. ""Vajira Wijesinghe"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi group, > > Let me apologise first for forwarding this stupid question as a > networking engineer. But i need you guy's answers just to show to my > client who doesnot believe what i'm saying. > > We have two 6509's connected by 4-gig etherchannel and configured HSRP > groups in them for the default gateway redundancy of each VLAN. > As you all know, default hello time is 3 sec and hold time is 10 sec. > > I have reconfigured these timers to hello 1 sec and hold 4 sec. > > Now client is unhappy because effectively I have increased the rate of > hello packet sending by 3 times. He is worrying about the amount of > hello traffic I have infused to this gigabit network. > > Does any one of you have any comment? > Thanks > ----------------------------------------- (on postoffice) > > The information contained in this email is confidential and is meant to be > read only by the person to whom it is addressed.Please visit > http://www.millenniumit.com/legal/email.htm to read the entire > confidentiality clause. > > ---------------------------------------------------------
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