North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP keepalive/holdtime at GigE exchange
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:04:45PM -0800, Clayton Fiske wrote: > With regard to your earlier comments about busy routers "pausing" > BGP, perhaps this is something that can be investigated at a vendor > software level. [snip] > In the interest of stability, I > would certainly want keepalives to be processed ahead of routing > updates. BGP is TCP-based, so there is no (easy) way of ensuring that the keepalives go to the top of the queue without possibly corrupting the routing data itself. -- Ryan O'Connell - <[email protected]> - http://www.complicity.co.uk I'm not losing my mind, no I'm not changing my lines, I'm just learning new things with the passage of time
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