[c-nsp] BFD in XR 3.9.1

[Vikas Sharma]

Hi,

Not sure why you are using "L2 multipath" with BFD... as far as I know
"L2 multipath" is sth related to DC and replacement of STP (i may be
wrong)

Regards,
Vikas

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Richard A Steenbergen
<ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 09:08:42AM +1200, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote:
>> that surprising).  We have encountered one limitation - currently BFD
>> over ethtrunks is not supported (at least on 9k). We tested it with
>> 20ms intervals (even though 15ms is the minimal value Cisco advised us
>> to use 20ms).
>
> BFD is an IP based protocol, it's completely ignorant of L2 multipath
> and will almost always get hashed over a single link arbitrarily. This
> means that most failures will not be detected at all, and even if the
> packets do happen to get hashed on the physical member which goes down,
> it will bring down the entire port-channel.
>
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