[c-nsp] question about BFD

[Saku Ytti]

On (2006-01-05 09:54 -0000), McCallum, Robert wrote:

> >  We've labbed it in 7600 
> 
> *** yep that was your problem it was a 7600 - lol!!

Well put and very observant of you.

> 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.

I was using it with IS-IS. From my point of view BFD+iBGP doesn't make
that much sense, you'll detect IS-IS down via BFD and iBGP down via
IGP next-hop trigger (when your platforms supports it:)

> HTH

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