10-19-2019 01:41 PM - edited 10-19-2019 02:18 PM
Hello,
If I use Nexus 6ks and 5ks with 2k FEX, and SFP-10G x2 Port-channels, how should I find out how much bandwidth I am gonna lose from my links for hello intervals? and how low I can go for hello intervals for the fastest convergence?
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10-19-2019 02:17 PM - edited 10-19-2019 02:17 PM
Well, timing is more up to you. I don;t think there is a specific formula except that the ration for timers is 4:1. You can reduce the timers to allow faster convergence, but in case the link is unstable it will flap much more with lower timers.
So if you have a stable link, you can go with, for example, 4:1 instead of 40:10 for broadcast networks.
But if you want faster convergence, vest practice is to use BFD.
10-19-2019 04:28 PM - edited 10-19-2019 04:29 PM
First, just curious, what's the chance of the port-channel links failing without hardware signalling port down?
With my prior employer, we found using hello interval of one second didn't seem to cause any issues, and although still "slow", its was 10x better than the default.
On devices that supported BFD, we used 250ms x4, i.e. 4x better than the above.
Normally we expected hardware to take the port down, so the hello timers were "just in case".
On devices that losing a link wouldn't trigger a port down, and which didn't support BFD (e.g. tunnels), I used, if supported, fast OSPF hellos, 500 ms x4.
On any of the above, especially with gig or faster LAN links, high frequency hellos weren't a bandwidth issue.
10-19-2019 02:17 PM - edited 10-19-2019 02:17 PM
Well, timing is more up to you. I don;t think there is a specific formula except that the ration for timers is 4:1. You can reduce the timers to allow faster convergence, but in case the link is unstable it will flap much more with lower timers.
So if you have a stable link, you can go with, for example, 4:1 instead of 40:10 for broadcast networks.
But if you want faster convergence, vest practice is to use BFD.
10-19-2019 02:19 PM - edited 10-19-2019 02:20 PM
It's not even supported on nexus I guess
10-19-2019 04:28 PM - edited 10-19-2019 04:29 PM
First, just curious, what's the chance of the port-channel links failing without hardware signalling port down?
With my prior employer, we found using hello interval of one second didn't seem to cause any issues, and although still "slow", its was 10x better than the default.
On devices that supported BFD, we used 250ms x4, i.e. 4x better than the above.
Normally we expected hardware to take the port down, so the hello timers were "just in case".
On devices that losing a link wouldn't trigger a port down, and which didn't support BFD (e.g. tunnels), I used, if supported, fast OSPF hellos, 500 ms x4.
On any of the above, especially with gig or faster LAN links, high frequency hellos weren't a bandwidth issue.
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