[c-nsp] BFD and EoMPLS

Peter Rathlev peter at rathlev.dk
Wed Dec 22 07:08:39 EST 2010


On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:08 +0000, Michael Robson wrote:
> I then have two clients connected one to router A and the second to
> router B with an EoMPLS pseudowire connecting them (the pseudowire is
> terminated against the same loopback of the 6500s used for the BGP
> peerings).
[...]
> If I configure BFD for each link and also attach it to OSPF and repeat
> the experiment, the time to re-route is still 6-7 seconds.
> 
> I can reason that this might work or that it shouldn't: does this not
> work because there is no direct hook between BFD and LDP 

Yes. AFAIK Cisco doesn't support BFD for LDP. You can try using FRR to
get fast failover for EoMPLS.

-- 
Peter




More information about the cisco-nsp mailing list