timers

Use this command in Peer Template Configuration mode to configure the keepalive and hold timers in a peer template.

Default	The keepalive and hold timers default to the globally configured values set with the address-family command.
Format	`timers keepalive holdtime`
Mode	Peer Template Config

Parameter	Description
keepalive	The time, in seconds, between BGP KEEPALIVE packets sent to a neighbor. The range is 0 to 65,535 seconds. Jitter is applied to the keepalive interval.
holdtime	The time, in seconds, that BGP continues to consider a neighbor to be alive without receiving a BGP KEEPALIVE or UPDATE packet from the neighbor. If no KEEPALIVE is received from a neighbor for longer than the hold time, BGP drops the adjacency. If the hold time is set to 0, then BGP does not enforce a hold time and BGP does not send periodic KEEPALIVE messages. The range is 0 to 65,535 seconds.