Hi, I have 2 eBGP peers over a 64k leased line. One of the peers, say router A periodically sends a BGP notification of "hold time expired" to the other peer router B and it appears to happen quite randomly. Whenever this happened, on router B i could actually see a syslog message saying: "BGP-3-NOTIFICATION: received from neighbor <router A's IP> 4/0 (hold time expired) 0 bytes" Does this indicate that the link is actually not down (since router B received the BGP notification from A)? How then, could router A have missed 3 consecutive keepalives that router B sent? I've checked the timers, and the peers negotiated the keepalive to be 10 seconds, holdown time to be 30 seconds; nothing out of the ordinary here. Any suggestions? TIA.