<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; ">Hello,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; "><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; ">I know this a bit of reach to be asking about on the IXP-Manager mailing list, but I wanted to probe if anyone has seen this before.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; "><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; ">We moved away from arouteserver building our route server config, and now use the native IXP-Manager configs. <b>At the same time, we did jump to BIRD v2.</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; "><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; ">Ever since then, we get some hold timer expired sessions drops almost daily.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; "><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; "><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-26 13:04:43 <RMT> pb_0004_as23738: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-27 23:04:43 <RMT> pb_0002_as20326: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-28 07:04:39 <RMT> pb_0013_as54825: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-28 12:04:25 <RMT> pb_0002_as20326: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-28 20:04:36 <RMT> pb_0002_as20326: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-29 20:04:26 <RMT> pb_0005_as5050: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-31 08:04:42 <RMT> pb_0002_as20326: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-03-31 14:04:24 <RMT> pb_0005_as5050: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-04-01 09:04:37 <RMT> pb_0013_as54825: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-04-01 19:04:24 <RMT> pb_0013_as54825: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-04-02 10:06:01 <RMT> pb_0012_as27364: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-04-02 13:04:23 <RMT> pb_0002_as20326: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;">2020-04-02 15:06:00 <RMT> pb_0011_as27364: Error: Hold timer expired</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Our primary route server is running on the old configuration and the older BIRD until everything is proven stable, and it’s not seeing any sort of hold timer issues.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">In the IXP-Manager community's opinion, is BIRD 2.0.7 stable with IXP Manager configs and should we be looking into a kernel or hardware issue?</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">As always, thanks for any assistance and thanks to the IXP-Manager team for making this amazing platform.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_signature" ><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial;">-- </span><br style="font-family: helvetica, arial;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Nick Zurku</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">PIT-IX Operations Volunteer </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Systems Engineer, TeraSwitch Inc. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">nzurku@teraswitch.com</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Office: 412-945-7048</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br></div></div></body></html>