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IOS-XR bottoms out at 15ms. IOS/XE has typically been 150ms.

Agreed that in general unless you have <50ms failover requirements 150ms+
is probably a good compromise.

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 17:57 Andrew Hoyos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 5:52 PM, David Farmer <
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 5:36 PM Richard Laager <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On 4/21/21 3:04 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
>> > And to follow up on my previous question, is Arista falling bit short in
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>> > our situation, by not supporting a receive interval of 10 msec?
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>> I've had a couple vendors suggest not to make it that short. Brocade,
>> for example, suggested 150 ms as a minimum. Arista was more vague, but
>> from your error message, apparently their implementation doesn't even
>> try to do less than 50 ms.
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> Maybe think about this from another perspective, 10 ms is 100 times a
> second, 50 ms is 20 times a second, and 150 ms just over 6 times a second.
> I think 10 ms is probably being a little impatient.
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> Not the mention, the added CPU load on both ends dealing with said BFD
> packets 100x/sec.
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> We’ve generally seen 50-250ms used in practice. 10ms does seem super
> aggressive. We use 250ms x 3 here for backbone links and peers/transit that
> support BFD, and 750ms x 3 facing internal gear.
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