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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall utilizes purpose-built security processors and threat intelligence security services from FortiGuard labs to deliver top-rated protection and high performance, including encrypted traffic.
akileshc
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Article Id 225575
Description This article describes how to fine-tune BGP configurations to facilitate the fastest BGP route failovers on FortiGate.
Scope FortiGate.
Solution

BGP is perhaps the most widely used and dependable routing protocol on the Internet, and it even plays a significant role in linking large businesses. 
In this case, redundant routing mechanisms and the fastest route failovers in the setup is significant.

 

Configure the following timers to the lowest values as needed to enable the fastest route failovers:


scan-time, advertisement-interval, keep-alive-timer, and holdtime-timer.

 

CLI Syntax:

 

# config router bgp
    set scan-time 'integer' <----- Background scanner interval(sec), 0 to disable it.(integer= Minimum value: 5 Maximum value: 60, Default:60)
end

 

# config router bgp
# config neighbor/neighbor-group
    edit 'ip'/'name'
        set advertisement-interval 'integer' <----- Minimum interval(sec) between sending updates.(integer= Minimum value: 1 Maximum value: 600, default:30).
        set keep-alive-timer 'integer' <----- Keep alive timer interval (sec).(integer= Minimum value: 0 Maximum value: 65535) (default: <Global BGP value>).
        set holdtime-timer 'integer' <----- Number of seconds to mark peer as dead. (integer= Minimum value: 3 Maximum value: 65535, or special:<0>) (default: <Global BGP value>)
end

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