[c-nsp] question about BFD

[David Freedman]

It would be nice if BFD were something you could use in conjunction with 
object tracking (i.e, for static routes), it could then be made useful 
in some customer multihoming scenarios.

Dave.


McCallum, Robert wrote:
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Saku Ytti
>> Sent: 05 January 2006 05:37
>> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] question about BFD
>> 
>> On (2006-01-04 17:26 -0800), Dan Martin wrote:
>> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>> > I'd be interested in hearing about any operational 
>> experience with BFD.
>> > I think unless its used wisely it could be the equivalent 
>> of putting a 
>> > rubber band over your grip safety, a specifically good idea 
>> could turn 
>> > into a generally bad one, depending on the circumstances.
>> 
>>  We've labbed it in 7600 
> 
> *** yep that was your problem it was a 7600 - lol!!
> 
> Also what gert said is perfectly correct - BFD works in conjunction with
> routing protocols (not isis as far as I am aware - yet) to detect signal
> DOWNs.  I have labbed it with ospf and bgp and tbh it worked fine.  I
> don't need to implement it in the live environment - not yet anyway :-)
> One thing to note is that BFD is supported with SSO, whereas screwing
> your hello timers down i.e. fast-hellos are not supported with SSO.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
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