[c-nsp] bfd in a VRF

Aamer Akhter (aakhter) aakhter at cisco.com
Wed Aug 29 09:20:10 EDT 2007


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

BFD in a VRF works today on the GSR (12.0S) in the newer releases.

It will work in future releases on the different platforms.

Regards,
-- 
Aamer Akhter / aa at cisco.com
Ent & Commercial Systems, cisco Systems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:37 AM
> To: Gier, Menno de (Menno)
> Cc: Cisco NSP
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] bfd in a VRF
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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