BGP Graceful Restart Timers
Configuration field to hold BGP restart timers
Name | Description | Type | Notes |
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restart_timer | BGP Graceful Restart Timer Maximum time taken (in seconds) for a BGP session to be established after a restart. This can be used to speed up routing convergence by its peer in case the BGP speaker does not come back up after a restart. If the session is not re-established within this timer, the receiving speaker will delete all the stale routes from that peer. |
integer | Minimum: 1 Maximum: 3600 Default: "180" |
stale_route_timer | BGP Stale Route Timer Maximum time (in seconds) before stale routes are removed from the RIB (Routing Information Base) when BGP restarts. |
integer | Minimum: 1 Maximum: 3600 Default: "600" |