Setting the session retry timer

About setting the session retry timer

To speed up session establishment to a peer or peer group, set a small session retry timer. If the BGP session flaps, you can set a large session retry timer to reduce the impact and speed up route convergence.

Restrictions and guidelines

The timer set by the peer timer connect-retry command takes precedence over the timer set by the timer connect-retry command.

Procedure

Step	Command	Remarks
1. Enter system view.	system-view	N/A
2. Enter BGP instance view or BGP-VPN instance view.	Enter BGP instance view:bgp as-number [ instance instance-name ] Enter BGP-VPN instance view: bgp as-number [ instance instance-name ] ip vpn-instance vpn-instance-name	N/A
3. Set the session retry timer.	Set the session retry timer for all peers or peer groups:timer connect-retry retry-time Set the session retry timer for a peer or peer group:peer { group-name \| ipv4-address [ mask-length ] \| ipv6-address [ prefix-length ] } timer connect-retry retry-time	By default, the session retry timer is 32 seconds for a peer or peer group.

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