On 2008-10-08, Simon Slaytor <sslaytor@iom.com> wrote:
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> It's also important to tune the BGP dead timers as low as you can

if you do this, do it with care, it's a double-edged sword.

sure you pick up a dead session sooner, but, it greatly increases
the chance of killing a session when your or more likely your peer's
routers are working ok, forwarding ok, but a bit busy to handle
control plane traffic in a timely fashion.

when that happens, dropping the session and forcing them to feed
you full table is about the last thing you want to do...