Hello, I am running bird's BGP on a slower link with accounted data. I would like to lower connection attempt frequency when the peer is down. I found only two parameters mentioning connection delays: 'connect delay time' and 'connect retry time'. From documentation, I understood to change the 'connect retry time' to slow down failed connection attempts, but the bird seems to use 'connect delay time' repeatedly if the connection fails (test: bird 1.6.6, peer's firewall drops all BGP packets). So, what is the 'connect retry time' used for? Also, if I increase the 'connect delay time' to lower BGP data throughput in case the peer is offline, I introduce also unwanted delay when everything works and only the BGP protocol is restarted... I understand bird 1.6.6 is rather old to ask for any help here. However, it is such a basic functionality I do not believe it to have changed recently. Also, I found no mention of these parameters in the NEWS file. Milan