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Re: BFD for routes learned trough Route-servers in IXPs


From: Paul Timmins <paul () telcodata us>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:28:14 -0400

On 9/17/20 1:51 PM, Douglas Fischer wrote:
But 30 Seconds for an IXP? It does not make any sense!
Those packets are stealing CPU cycles of the Control Plane of any router in the LAN.

Especially given how some exchanges lock the mac address of participants. You could probably get away with ARP timeouts of a day or even just permanent with manual clearing when you see a peer go down.

-Paul


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