Configuring the Delay Before BGP Peers Mark the Routing Device as Down
The hold time is the maximum number of seconds allowed to elapse between successive keepalive or update messages that BGP receives from a peer. When establishing a BGP connection with the local routing device, a peer sends an open message, which contains a hold-time value. BGP on the local routing device uses the smaller of either the local hold-time value or the peer’s hold-time value received in the open message as the hold time for the BGP connection between the two peers.
To modify the hold-time value on the local BGP system, include the hold-time statement:
For a list of hierarchy levels at which you can include this statement, see the statement summary section for this statement.
The default hold-time value is 90 seconds.
The range is 20 through 65,535 seconds.
The hold time is three times the interval at which keepalive messages are sent.
