[c-nsp] Faster BGP Failover

[Phil Mayers]

On 12/10/11 11:27, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Vincent Aniello wrote:
>
>> I do not believe that BFD is an option since these are Internet
>> connections.
>
> Why do you believe that BFD and Internet connection is mutually exclusive?
>
> I wish more ISPs would use BFD on their IX connections, even if it was
> only 1s/3s setting (quite conservative and works even on BFDonRP based
> platforms), compared to 180s today it's a huge improvement.
>

In fairness, vendor idiocy ("Cisco have removed BFD on SVIs on the 
6500") probably doesn't help; it's damn annoying that BFD isn't 
pervasive. It's a great solution for e.g. fast HSRP failover too.