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Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Protocol

JakeMont edited this page Nov 14, 2011 · 1 revision

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol

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Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a protocol intended to detect faults in the bidirectional path between two forwarding engines, including physical interfaces, subinterfaces, data link(s), and to the extent possible the forwarding engines themselves, with potentially very low latency."

We are using it in a slightly different way. See OpenBFDD Overview.

As of this writing the bfdd-beacon implements the RFC5880 (June 2010) BFD specification.

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