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Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?


From: Ken Matlock <matlockken () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:57:14 -0600

Right, BFD on a dark fiber link (should) be immediately detected and the
detecting end should send a cease/stop/whatever message to the remote peer
to drop the neighbor relationship.

BFD really comes into it's own in a derived circuit (such as metro-E or
other type setup) where you can have an indirect failure (traffic does not
pass, but the last mile link remains up).

Ken


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Alex Lembesis <Alex.Lembesis () tevapharm com
wrote:

Correct, Luke.

Best regards,

Alex



-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Guillory (External) [mailto:lguillory () reservetele com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:37 PM
To: Alex Lembesis; Job Snijders (External); Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
Cc: NANOG
Subject: RE: How are you configuring BFD timers?

He's asking because if it was dark the interface would go down when the
link was lost and the router would pull routes. But PA to FL would lead me
to believe it'll be a wave from some type of DWDM gear which brings us to
BFD.






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-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Alex Lembesis
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 11:31 AM
To: Job Snijders (External); Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
Cc: NANOG
Subject: RE: How are you configuring BFD timers?

To speed up BGP routing convergence.  The (2x) dark fiber links from PA to
FL are being used as Layer3 datacenter interconnects, where each datacenter
has its own AS.  The DF is also carrying FCIP traffic, so we need failover
to be as fast as possible.

Best regards,



Alex



-----Original Message-----
From: Job Snijders (External) [mailto:job () instituut net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:25 PM
To: Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
Cc: Alex Lembesis; NANOG
Subject: Re: How are you configuring BFD timers?

Silly question perhaps, but why would you do BFD on dark fiber?

Kind regards,

Job

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