The time to hold this peer in Idle state after a BGP session has progressed beyond Idle state initially and then returned to it. No new connections will be initiated or accepted until the peer comes out of Idle state. By setting this field to a large value, this timer can be used to provide some level of peer oscillation damping, if desired. This field can be changed at any time. However, if the field is changed while the peer is admin_status UP, the change will only take effect after the peer has been cycled admin_status DOWN and then UP, thus forcing the peer session to be restarted. In this case, until the peer is set admin_status DOWN, the peer will be marked as out of date (as reported by the config_state field in the AMB_BGP_PEER_STATUS row for the peer).