Hi all,
I have two BGP sessions connecting my RB1200 to two ISP providers. There are two default static routes with same metrics, pointing to two different ISP gateways.
Now, instantaneous route failover in case one ISP is down would be easy if I didnt have BGP enabled. Considering I do, BGP takes care of routing, assigning the attributes and failing from one peer to another. Sounds great in theory, but in real-life this failover is disturbingly slow due to BGP design. When one of the links goes down, I feel it takes ages until BGP understands the session is down, and switches routing to another peer. Last time is kept session as "established" even though there was no connectivity to that ISP at all!
Is there anything I could do to ensure instantaneous failover, without disabling BGP altogether?
Thank you all in advance!