- Written by Dongliang Feng
- Posted on June 20, 2022
- Updated on July 1, 2022
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When a Provider Edge (PE) device loses BGP connectivity to the core (uplink) devices, it may be unable to forward any traffic from its downlink devices, typically CE (Customer Edge) devices. It is beneficial to indicate this connectivity loss to these CE devices so that they may find alternative paths to forward traffic.