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["chetan kumar s" <chetan.kumar@wipro.com>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, nomit kalidhar wrote:

Hi,
	U should know that fact that Hello messages are exchanged  to
maintain the link status, and keep alive messages are exchanged to
maintain the session status. Hope this answer ur question..

Thanks
Chetan S

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I had a small doubt in LDP regarding timers.
> 
> A LSR maintains a Hold timer with each Hello adjacency which it restarts
> when it receives a hello message.
>  When a session is established does it still have to exchange Hello
> packets ? along with keep alive message ( if nothing is there to
> transmit) ?
> 
> If it keeps on sending the hello message and the keep alive message,
> then what happens if the hold timer gets over but keep alive is still
> not over, is the connection terminated ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Nomit
> 
> 
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