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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:41:45 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=C3=A9?= <olivier@freebsd.org>
To:        yar <yaroslav@shvets.name>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bq%2BTcqx6z0L=zP-nMtSPjc9rwA5YPh6RuciDz4-aTFpjjGk1A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:53 PM, yar <yaroslav@shvets.name> wrote:

> Hello All.
>
> Does FreeBSD support BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection)?
> rfc5880, rfc5881


=E2=80=8BHi,

BFD is supported (ie: not filtered) by FreeBSD: you just need to use a BFD
daemon software.

If your question was "Does FreeBSD includes a BFD daemon into base?", the
answer is no.

Main usage of BFD is to detect network failure between routing peers and
give this information to the routing protocol=E2=80=8B.
As example, once an OSPF process detect new neighbours, it will sent their
IP addresses to the BFD process:
Once received, the BFD process will monitor the reachability of these
neighbours and will communicate back to the OSPF process if they are not
reachable.

But I'm not aware of a standard way for an "independent" bfd daemon to
communicate between all the routing softwares (bird, FRR, quagga, etc.):
This is why they includes their own BFD daemon (like bird).

Regards,

Olivier



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