hi Lukasz, actually i tested this over 3 different scenarios separately, and the result was the same: (1) in GNS3, i added 2 "cisco3600 (IOS: 12.3(22))" and connected them to each-other (2) in GNS3, i added 2 "cisco3600 (IOS: 12.3(22))", then started Quagga on FreeBSD, then connected my virtual Ciscos to quagga via "tap"s (3) i connected a Quagga (on FreeBSD) to a real-box "Cisco2800 (ISO: 12.4(15)T13)" via a real ethernet line
in each scenario, the configuration on each router (quagga, cisco2800, cisco3600) was the minimum that is needed: #interface ??? ##ip address X.X.X.Y 255.255.255.0 #router bgp 1 ##neighbor X.X.X.Z remote-as 1 ##neighbor X.X.X.Z activate and the result on each scenario was the same: in (1) both Ciscos were sending 3 KEEPALIVES (after OPENs) in (2) Quagga and one Cisco sent 2 KEEPALIVES and one Cisco sent 3 KEEPALIVES (after OPENs) in (3) Quagga and Cisco, both sent 2 KEEPALIVES. after that, i restarted Quagga, this time, Quagga sent 2 KEEPALIVES and Cisco sent 3 KEEPALIVES. * i've tested Quagga before and saw Quagga also sends 3 KEEPALIVES sometimes. this is a sample of my wireshark (just BGPs) for scenario(3) where 192.168.0.24 is Quagga and 192.168.0.210 is my Cisco2800: ... no time source dest proto info 700 10.198417 192.168.0.24 192.168.0.210 BGP OPEN Message 701 10.200723 192.168.0.210 192.168.0.24 BGP OPEN Message 705 10.200855 192.168.0.24 192.168.0.210 BGP KEEPALIVE Message 706 10.201105 192.168.0.210 192.168.0.24 BGP KEEPALIVE Message 708 10.201258 192.168.0.24 192.168.0.210 BGP KEEPALIVE Message 709 10.202348 192.168.0.210 192.168.0.24 BGP KEEPALIVE Message 712 10.202602 192.168.0.210 192.168.0.24 BGP KEEPALIVE Message 713 70.204722 ..... ... Regards. ________________________________ From: Łukasz Bromirski <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, December 4, 2010 4:19:55 PM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BGP KEEPALIVE maximum frequency On 2010-12-04 12:40, M. V. wrote: > hi, > > i have sort of a technical question. > RFC4271 (main RFC of BGP4) says: "KEEPALIVE messages MUST NOT be sent more > frequently than one per second". i checked cisco with wireshark and saw it >sends > more than 1 KEEPALIVE (sometimes 2, but usually 3) in less than 1 second right > after OPEN messages are sent. and then after that, everything gets back to > normal, and it sends KEEPALIVEs just every 60 seconds. Do you have more details on this specific setup? IOS version? Both devices were Cisco or Cisco<>3rd party? Was it on the real boxes or under dynamips? -- "Everything will be okay in the end. | Łukasz Bromirski If it's not okay, it's not the end." | http://lukasz.bromirski.net _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
