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Did this one get dropped?
-- 
Alex
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Friday, January 23, 2004, 1:30:14 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hi,

> As I proposed BFD for static routes, it struck me (now that we
> suffered a small outage due to eBGP timeout :-) that eBGP would profit
> *enermously* from BFD.  You usually don't run other routing protocols
> on such links, so if the physical link doesn't provide link-state
> notifications, you're pretty much down to very long BGP timeouts if
> the link fails.

> Something to add to the draft-katz-ward-bfd-v4v6-1hop-00.txt document, 
> only describing non-multihop case? (It's pretty trivial as well, 
> because you don't even have to figure which addresses to use between 
> the BGP session endpoints..)





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	Hi,

	Zafar and I put together a MIB module that can be 
used to manage BFD. Comments/suggestions on the draft 
are welcome.  The draft can be found here:

 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nadeau-bfd-mib-00.txt

	--Tom








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Vach,
 
  [ CC'ing to RTG-BFD list, because I found this related ]

-> Question 1: important issue worthy of our cycles, or not?

  Yes. It is an important issue to consider.
 
-> Question 2: "discover" connectivity issues or "discover and repair"?

  In my opinion, this fully-connected and strongly-connected 
  graph synchrony is required by many protocols (mostly for routing 
  protocols) - not just VPLS. If known, communication complexity 
  (number of message overhead) can be reduced by using well
  established distributed algorithms (in asynchronous problem 
  space).

  For now, VPLS can have some provisioning to discover connectivity
  issues in full-mesh topology. But, in general, a separate protocol like
  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-katz-ward-bfd-v4v6-1hop-00.txt
  is good to start with.

  If BFD can figure out the link bi-directional connectivity,
  any higher-level protocol knowing the full-mesh diameter can 
  compute which of the links went down by flooding, leader-election 
  or BFS spanning tree methods.

Venkata.




