H3C S9500 Series Command Manual page 82

Command Manual – BGP
H3C S9500 Series Routing Switches
View
BGP view, BGP-VPN instance view
Default Level
2: System level
Parameters
keepalive: Keepalive interval in seconds, ranging from 1 to 21845.
holdtime: Holdtime interval in seconds, ranging from 3 to 65535.
Description
Use the timer command to configure BGP keepalive interval and holdtime interval.
Use the undo timer command to restore the default.
By default, BGP keepalive and holdtime intervals are 60s and 180s.
Note that:
Timer configured using the peer timer command is preferred to the timer
configured using this command.
The holdtime interval must be at least three times the keepalive interval.
The configured timer applies to all the BGP peers, while it becomes valid only after
the corresponding BGP connections are reset.
Related commands: peer timer.
Examples
# Configure keepalive interval and holdtime interval as 60s and 180s.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] bgp 100
[Sysname-bgp] timer keepalive 60 hold 180
# In BGP-VPN instance view, configure keepalive interval and holdtime interval as 60s
and 180s (the VPN has been created).
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] bgp 100
[Sysname-bgp] ipv4-family vpn-instance vpn1
[Sysname-bgp-vpn1] timer keepalive 60 hold 180
Chapter 1 BGP Configuration Commands
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