Sometimes carriers protect optical circuits using inexpensive optical switches that have longer switching delays (>50ms). In these cases I'd understand their request for a longer hold-time. But 3 seconds is a lot.
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 20:02 Jonathan Call <lordsit...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Anyone have experience with hold timers? > > > For the first time in my experience I have a carrier asking me to > implement 3 second hold timers on their interface to deal with their link > constantly flapping. They're citing this document as proof that it needs to > be done: > > > https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/reference/configuration-statement/hold-time-edit-interfaces.html > > I'm extremely dubious of this requirement since I've never had a carrier > ask for this and our router is a pretty old MX80 which does not have a lot > of buffer space. But then again, maybe packet drops due to buffer overflow > are better than carrier transitions and the resulting BGP teardown and > rebuild. > > Regards, > > Jonathan > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp