[c-nsp] BGP neighbor fall-over vs BFD

[Saku Ytti]

On (2013-03-11 19:07 +0200), Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2013-03-11 10:52 -0600), John Neiberger wrote:
> 
> > Can someone shed some light on this? What is fall-over really doing and
> > when might it be useful?
> 
> Without BFD it means that eBGP is torn down when egress interface to
> neighbour goes down. It's on by default.

Sorry, actually fall-over tracks route to neighbour (it was introduced when
BGP scanner stopped doing the work, and BGP became trigger based maybe 7-8
years agi)

What I explained is actually fast-external-failover.

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