[c-nsp] BFD support on ISR

[Vinny Abello]

Yep, we plan on looking at this release. :)

Robert Crowe wrote:
> 6500 support version 1 in SXH.
> 
>  	
> Rob
> 
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> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:35 PM
> To: Robert Boyle
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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] BFD support on ISR
> 
> Robert Boyle wrote:
>> At 08:30 PM 9/30/2007, Mark Tinka wrote:
>>> On Monday 01 October 2007 06:32, Mario Puras wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know whether BFD is supported on ISR
>>>> platforms?  What is the smallest platform that BFD is
>>>> supported on?
>>> 1801
>> One thing to keep in mind is that Cisco only supports BFD 1.x on most 
>> platforms. Some other vendors only support BFD 2.x and the two are 
>> not compatible. You would think that 2.x should be backward 
>> compatible, but it isn't. I think some new 7600 versions support 2.x. 
>> Unless you know this, you will spend hours of frustration in a 
>> multi-vendor environment trying to get BFD to work.
> 
> Technically the versions are BFD 0 and BFD 1. I think it's actually the
> other way around in that Cisco only supports BFD 0 in most platforms. We've
> tried to use BFD version 1 on Foundry switches in conjunction with Cat6500's
> without success because of this. The Foundry only supports version 1 and
> until recent code, Cisco only supports version 0.
> 

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