Hello bird users, one of our VIX customers (RS-Client) came up with a question about the graceful restart timer. At his Cisco he found: ------------ Graceful Restart Capability: advertised and received Remote Restart timer is 0 seconds ------------ We don't have anything related to graceful restart in our config, defaults should apply. At packet level, I found in BGP Open sent from bird: ------------ Capability: Route refresh capability Type: Route refresh capability (2) Length: 0 Capability: Graceful Restart capability Type: Graceful Restart capability (64) Length: 2 Restart Timers: 0x0000 0... .... .... .... = Restart: No .... 0000 0000 0000 = Time: 0 ------------ Next, I tried to set the timer explicitly, which ended up again with restart timer 0 in BGP Open. The only way to get the correct timer in the packet was to set graceful to yes in the protocol definition. ------ graceful restart time 10; graceful restart yes; ------ As far as I understand the default for graceful restart ("aware") should be enough to advertise capability and timer. I am grateful for every advice, regards Robert -- www.vix.at | www.aco.net robert.wein@univie.ac.at | RW2586-RIPE Vienna University Computer Center Tel: +43 1 4277-14046 | Fax: -14338