Re: about Hold Time

Herve Degrand <herve@gideon.bt.co.uk> Tue, 27 May 1997 08:56 UTC

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Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:00:02 +0000
From: Herve Degrand <herve@gideon.bt.co.uk>
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To: Hwang Hyojung <jung@h2o.kotel.co.kr>
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Subject: Re: about Hold Time
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Hello,

about Hold Time at zero, it is written in RFC 1771 =
" Hold Time MUST be either zero or at least three seconds...
If the negotiated Hold Time interval is zero, then periodic
KEEPALIVE messages MUST NOT be sent... = the Hold Time timer and
KeepAlive timers are not started."

So, you seem to be right,  BGP speaker doesn't need to send/receive
KEEPALIVE message.

Herve

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 Herve DEGRAND   <herve@gideon.bt.co.uk>
   BT Labs
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Hwang Hyojung wrote:

|What does it mean that Hold Time is zero ?
|Does that mean "a BGP speaker doesn't send/receive KEEPALIVE message 
|to insure its peer's status to/from each other" ? 
|Or .. ? 
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