[122090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BFD over p2p transport links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Durack)
Fri Feb 5 11:33:04 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100205.172335.74682420.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:32:51 -0500
From: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, serge@nbnet.nb.ca
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM, <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote:
> We run it on most 10G backbone (LAN-PHY) links.
Hmm. Backbone L2 transport, or fiber/wave type transport? I'd be
surprised to hear of people running it on dark-fiber-ish stuff.
> In addition to the issue of link down propagation, you may also want
> to standardize on BFD for all your backbone links, for simplicity's
> sake (same mechanism everywhere). Obviously, in order to do this you
> want to be sure that the BFD implementation won't give you lots of
> false positives.
And therein lies the challenge. Try asking Mr Steenburger what BFD stands for...
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
>
>
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Tim:>
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