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neighbor timers


Sets the hold-timer timer for the specified neighbor or peer group.

Syntax: neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} timers time

no neighbor {ip-address | peer-group-name} timers

ip-address

IP address of the BGP neighbor.

peer-group-name

Name of a BGP peer group.

time

Number of seconds this router waits after not receiving a keepalive message, before BGP closes the connection to a peer or peer-group. Valid values are integers from 1 - 4294967295. Default: 180 seconds.

Description: Holdtime is the interval in seconds BGP waits after not receiving a keepalive message from a peer or peer-group, before shutting the connection down.

There is a second timer associated with this command. The keepalive timer specifies the interval to wait between keepalive messages sent by this router to a peer or peer group. The keepalive timer is generally calculated as the value of the hold timer divided by 3

Use the neighbor timers command to adjust the number of seconds this router will wait between keepalive messages before declaring the connection to a peer or peer-group dead.

Use the ip-address parameter to set the holdtime for the specified peer.

Use the peer-group parameter to set the holdtime for all members of the specified peer-group.

Use the no neighbor timers command to set the holdtime interval at the defaults.

Factory Default: 180 seconds.

Command Mode: Router configuration.

Example 1: In the following example, the neighbor ip-address timers command sets the hold-down-time interval to neighbor 121.80.100.4 to 90 seconds, and the show ip bgp neighbor command displays the setting:

router#router bgp 101

router(config-router)#neighbor 121.80.100.4 remote-as 101

router(config-router)#neighbor 121.80.100.4 timers 90

router(config-router)#end

router#show ip bgp neighbor 121.80.100.4

BGP neighbor 121.80.100.4 using remote AS 101

router ID: 0.0.0.0 version: 4

state: Active time: 0:00:00

def orignat: False ebgp multihop: False

n hop self: False route ref client: False

send comm: False soft reconfig: False

hold time: 90 sec keepalive time: 60 sec

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Example 2: In the following example, the neighbor peer-group timers command sets the hold-down-time interval for all members of a peer group named techpubs to 150 seconds:

router#router bgp 101

router(config-router)#neighbor techpubs timers 150

Example 3: In the following example, the no neighbor ip-address timers command removes the configured hold-down-time interval of a neighbor and resets the interval to the default:

router(config-router)#router bgp 101

router(config-router)#neighbor 121.80.100.4 remote-as 101

router(config-router)#neighbor 121.80.100.4 no timers

Related Commands: router bgp
show ip bgp
show ip bgp neighbors
timers bgp


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