Agree but so does BFD in echo mode but echo also proves that the IP punt path to the CPU is working. So not that I see no value in BFD but I do not see any additional value of this mode over echo.
-Ben On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Gert Doering wrote: > hi, > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:40:51AM -0500, Benjamin Lovell wrote: >> I have a dubious opinion of the usefulness as you are really only >> proving the forwarding of the ONE IP forwarding entry that leads >> back to your connected IP, but that's the idea anyway. > > Well, it proves that the path is working end-to-end (which helps a lot > in todays "everything is ethernet, but no useful error signalling" > environments) and that there is at least a compatible IP configuration > on the remote interface (same network or unnumbered with a proper route > back). > > Of course this is not a complete self-test of the remote machine, but > that would be somewhat expensive to do every 10ms :-) > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > //www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 [email protected] _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
