[c-nsp] BFD 1 support for Catalyst 6500?

[Vinny Abello]

Thanks Arie,

Interestingly, Cisco's feature navigator doesn't list 12.2(33)SRB on the
7600 as supporting BFD 1. I wouldn't have found that. It looks like
we're going to have to wait for 12.2(18)SXH for our 6500's.

Arie Vayner (avayner) wrote:
> Vinny,
> 
> On the 6500 BFD version 1 would be introduced in 12.2(18)SXH. Version 0
> is available since 12.2(18)SXE.
> On 7600 it is available since 12.2(33)SRB (which is already out).
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps6017/products_feature_guid
> e09186a00803fbe87.html
> 
> Arie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 06:58 AM
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> Subject: [c-nsp] BFD 1 support for Catalyst 6500?
> 
> 	I was looking through feature navigator and from what I can
> tell, the only IOS trains that support BFD 1 are the 12.4T line of code
> and pretty much only on the 7200/7301 routers. I was wondering if Cisco
> has planned support for BFD 1 on the Catalyst 6500's or any other
> platform. I'm not quite sure of the differences between version 0 and
> version 1, but I do know that the code on another vendor's product that
> I am trying to use only supports BFD 1... thereby making it incompatible
> with any code I can see on the Catalyst 6500 series if I want BFD to
> work. Cisco?
> 
> In the meantime, I am checking with the other vendor for the possibility
> of BFD 0 support as well in hopes to have these devices speak BFD to
> each other successfully some day.
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