Hi all, I'm currently getting started out with BGP so if I'm asking the obvious, please forgive my ignorance. On the topic of BGP convergence, may I ask what are the current best practices for ensuring rapid link failure detection - especially when dealing with an interface that is connected to 3rd party L2 infrastructure? e.g. an interface connected to an EBGP peer via Metro-E As far as I'm aware, the most commonly used method to minimize link failure detection time is to tune the keepalive/hold timers. I understand that there are alternatives to this such as BFD and next hop tracking - but support for this is limited on certain platforms. I have looked through this presentation from APNIC 21. http://www.apnic.net/meetings/21/docs/sigs/routing/routing-pres-hughes-bgp.p... What do you guys think of the recommendation for timers? (5s and 15s for keepalive and hold timers respectively). However, since the presentation is more than a year old, has BFD become a better solution to this? Looking forward to your suggestions. Thanks -- ANG Kah Yik (bangky)