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Re: endpoint liveness (RE: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sensean ymore?)

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Sat Aug 10 05:15:48 2002

It makes little sense to detect transient glitches.  Any possible reaction 
on those glitches (i.e. withdrawal of exterior routes with subsequent 
reinstatement) is more damaging than the glitches themselves.

--vadim

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Lane Patterson wrote:

> 
> BGP keepalive/hold timers are configurable even down to granularity 
> of link or PVC level keepalives, but for session stability reasons, 
> it appears that most ISPs at GigE exchanges choose not to
> tweak them down from the defaults.  IIRC, Juniper is 30/90 and Cisco is
> 60/180.  My gut feel was that even something like 10/30 would be 
> reasonable, but nobody seems compelled that this is much of an
> issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Lane
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petri Helenius [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 3:07 PM
> To: Mikael Abrahamsson; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > What functionality does PVC give you that the ethernet VLAN does not?
> >
> That�s quite easy. Endpoint liveness. A IPv4 host on a VLAN has no idea
> if the guy on the "other end" died until the BGP timer expires.
> 
> FR has LMI, ATM has OAM. (and ILMI)
> 
> Pete
>