[c-nsp] bfd in a VRF

[Phil Mayers]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:52 +0200, Gier, Menno de (Menno) wrote:
> All,
> 
> Between two routers I configured BGP for peering. Both routers are not
> directly connected, but via a L2 switch.
> 
> To make the switch-over faster I use bfd (Bidirectional Forwarding
> Detection) (The timers are set to 300msec with a retry timer of 3.)
> 
> On my router I need to setup more BGP peering sessions for other
> services. To keep the sessions separate, I need to use VRFs for the
> separation for the service. 
> 
> When everything is converted to VRFs the bfd function is not working
> anymore.

Correct. BFD doesn't work in a VRF. It's annoying.