[c-nsp] Reliable static routes and 12.2S

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:04:51PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> You're looking for BFD (bi-directional forwarding detection). As far as
> I know not yet implemented by Cisco, and in JunOS only used for IGP
> yet (IS-IS, not sure about OSPF). Provides end2end failure detection
> down to milliseconds time-to-detect (I've seen 50ms - this is SONET/SDH
> ring wrap time).

I'm not sure whether I want to imagine what happens to a SDSL line if
you put enough BFD packets on it to get 50ms failover times...

(SCNR)

gert

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