On 03/11/2010 2:28 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:00:39AM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: >>> ... >> Hello >> >> BIRD currently does not check or use link up/down state. OSPF routers >> generally check reachability using HELLO packets, not by reported link >> state, although sometimes this is also implemented. Drawback of HELLO >> protocol (to check reachability) is that it has some timeout to find >> out that the neighbor became unreachable. By default, it is ~ 40 >> seconds, But it is possible to configure it to < 10 seconds (see >> hello/wait/dead interface options). > I think BIRD really should check link state. Changing HELLO < 10 secs > isn't going to make it much better and will also increase load and network > bandwidth. > > Jocke I second this. Verifying an interface's link state should be a pretty easy operation, and as I am planning on using BIRD in production fairly soon, this is a feature I would really appreciate.
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