[c-nsp] BFD for static routes

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:20:18PM -0800, snort bsd wrote:
> static routes are not supposed to be dynamic and bfd is not designed for static routes.

Thanks for this incredibly helpful comment.

Please read up in the mailing list archives about real-world networks
and why bfd for static would help a lot in certain environments.

There is nothing in the design of BFD that has serious problems with 
using it for static - consider "static route" just another routing protocol
that can be signalled when a link becomes unavailable.  Not very much 
different from what happens when the link state goes down -> static routes 
are removed.

(But with that l33t user name, you've propably never seen a *real* Router
- on BSD systems, this is certainly not so easily implemented).

gert

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