GRE link state detection

[thegeezer at thegeezer.net]

OK thanks very much.
I will give this a go and let you know :)

>
> Hello
>
> GRE is connectionless, so there is no such thing as connected or
> disconnected GRE tunnel. I would prefer (and suggest) GRE (or IPIP)
> before any stateful tunnel like L2TP.
>
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 04:58:09PM +0100, thegeezer wrote:
>> It's OSPF, and  it has the setting tick 2; but even after 2 seconds the
>> lossy link is not detected
>
> Tick does something different, do not set it (keep it on default value 1).
> You want these OSPF interface options:
>
> hello 2; retransmit 1; dead 6;
>
> You could try some other values, but these are probably minimal sane
> values,
>
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