BGP-received-route Tracking and Fast Peering Deactivation:

By: Sajid Ali Pathan

This is quite new think that we have ever done with BGP. In a BGP dual multi-home scenario we configured "Selective Route Tracking" with "neighbor fall-over" command under BGP process. Actually we were facing some kind of unusual issue during internet outage from primary ISP. We lost internet connectivity but local peering with ISP remains up.

“When you configured Neighbor fall-over command under BGP process, it monitors RIB and if route to peer is not present in routing table it will immediately deactivate peer session without waiting for hold down timer.”  Read more >>