On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Matthew Walster <matt...@walster.org> wrote: > On 12 May 2010 02:36, Scott Weeks <sur...@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?
I just tested this and, yes, with Cisco to Cisco, changing the setting won't reset the connection but you have to reset the connection to have the value take effect. I need to look up what happens when two sides are set to different values and which one takes precedent.
