I would love to hear from MikroTik users that are successfully running BGP with two or more upstream providers and that have tested failover.
As I understand our MikroTik's are establishing a BGP sessions with a Hold Time of 0 and a Keep Alive Time of 0. The upstream provider router sees this as an indefinite setting and therefore when and if the link fails the BGP session will not clear until manually done so. Obviously this is a huge problem as that upstream will continue to announce when it shouldn't. Bottom line is all traffic will not failover automatically.
Any ideas on how to set the Hold Time and Keep Alive Time in MikroTik?
I sure hope V2.9 has a BGP module like Zebra etc... What MikroTik is offering for BGP now is very limited and probably shouldn't even be sold as a supported feature in V2.8!
Thanks,
Brad