[Idr] BGP KeepAlives

"Jithu Arun Sreedhar" <jithuarun@gmail.com> Mon, 31 March 2008 09:45 UTC

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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:14:59 +0530
From: Jithu Arun Sreedhar <jithuarun@gmail.com>
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Hi

Why use keepalives while the liveliness of the TCP connection will by
itself say if the peer is up or not. The TCP connections have its own
keepalives now to check the liveliness.

Jithu Arun Sreedhar
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