[c-nsp] BFD in XR 3.9.1

Marc Binderberger marc at sniff.de
Thu Aug 26 19:16:44 EDT 2010


> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:02 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> > BFD is an IP based protocol, it's completely ignorant of L2 multipath 
> > and will almost always get hashed over a single link arbitrarily.
> 
> Cisco may view it as only L3 relevant, but from RFC 5882 section 2:

not just Cisco :-)

Anyway, one can still send BFD L3 on every link of a bundle. That is
coming from 4.0 onwards (CRS first, ASR9k and c12k a bit later).


Regards, Marc


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