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        On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 10:58 +0200, Thomas Mangin wrote:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4271.html section 4.2
So unless you know something I don't, I believe you are totally mistaken :)
updates serve as implicit keepalives. in that same section: "Hold Time: The calculated value indicates the maximum number of seconds that may elapse between the receipt of successive KEEPALIVE and/or UPDATE messages from the sender." also check section 6.5: "If a system does not receive successive KEEPALIVE, UPDATE, and/or NOTIFICATION messages [...]" --Daniel