BGP peer slow to come up after interface enabled

RouterOS Forwarding Protocols
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I’m using BGP to handle some VPN routing because it updates the routing table quickly (WAY better than OSPF, and simpler).

The problem I’m having is that if a tunnel interfaces goes down and then comes back up, it takes BGP about 30 seconds to try to peer again. If I disable the peer and enable it’s within about 1 second.

How can I configure the peer to try to establish a connection faster than 30 seconds? (ideally without a script…)

2

Create a PPP profile which enables the peer on ‘up’ and disables it on ‘down’, then apply that profile to your VPN connection.

3

You could also just adjust the OSPF interfaces to set hello as 1 second, dead timer as 10 seconds and then set the type as point-to-point.

4

Thanks, I completely spaced out the ppp up scripts.

added this to the profile:

/routing bgp peer set disabled=yes [find where established!=yes]
/routing bgp peer set disabled=no [find where disabled=yes]

That cured it.