This is some notes for the post that I did on conditional BGP advertisement. I found an easier way of seeing the status for the advertise-map. It is available by looking at the neighbor status, look at the following output.
Timers used in OSPF
In any IGP there are a lot of timers involved in running the protocol. This post will not describe the hello and dead timers, these are well known. This post describes the less known timers that control how often packets