IXP BGP timers (was: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers)

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Caputo
What's the BCP for BGP timers at exchange points? I imagine if everyone did something low like 5-15 rather than the default 60-180, CPU usage increase could be significant given a high number peers. Keeping in mind that bgp fast-external-failover is of no use at an exchange since the fabric is

Re: IXP BGP timers (was: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers)

2009-05-25 Thread Andree Toonk
Hi Chris, .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at Mon, 25 May 2009, Chris Caputo wrote: Would going below 60-180 without first discussing it with your peers, tend to piss them off? 60-180 is fairly conservative. 60-180 is the Cisco default I believe, however Junipers defaults are

RE: IXP BGP timers (was: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers)

2009-05-25 Thread John.Herbert
@nanog.org Subject: Re: IXP BGP timers (was: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers) Hi Chris, .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at Mon, 25 May 2009, Chris Caputo wrote: Would going below 60-180 without first discussing it with your peers, tend to piss them off? 60-180 is fairly conservative