Description: The 16-bit integer value which is the proposed Hello hold timer for this LDP Entity. The Hello Hold time in seconds.

An LSR maintains a record of Hellos received from potential peers. This object represents the Hold Time in the Common Hello Parameters TLV of the Hello Message.

A value of 0 is a default value and should be interpretted in conjunction with the mplsLdpEntityTargetPeer object.

If the value of this object is 0: if the value of the mplsLdpEntityTargetPeer object is false(2), then this specifies that the Hold Time's actual default value is 15 seconds (i.e., the default Hold time for Link Hellos is 15 seconds). Otherwise if the value of the mplsLdpEntityTargetPeer object is true(1), then this specifies that the Hold Time's actual default value is 45 seconds (i.e., the default Hold time for Targeted Hellos is 45 seconds).

A value of 65535 means infinite (i.e., wait forever).

All other values represent the amount of time in seconds to wait for a Hello Message. Setting the hold time to a value smaller than 15 is not recommended, although not forbidden according to RFC3036.

For auto-created entities that use the global label space (and therefore might correspond to more than one adjacency over more than one interface), this value will only be meaningful if all interfaces that correspond to this entity are configured to use the same hello hold time, since this property can be configured on a per interface basis.

If the interfaces have differing configurations, the value returned on a MIB Get will be 0.