On 2010-12-22, at 5:08 AM, Michael Robson wrote:

<snip>

> If I configure BFD for each link and also attach it to OSPF and repeat the 
> experiment, the time to re-route is still 6-7 seconds.
> 
> I can reason that this might work or that it shouldn't: does this not work 
> because there is no direct hook between BFD and LDP or should it work because 
> the pseudowire terminating loopbacks are advertised in OSPF, OSPF has been 
> hooked into BFD and ultimately the LFIB is built via the FIB and LIB (or 
> perhaps with this testbed because the size of the network and Penultimate Hop 
> Popping it means that the FIB is used anyway)?

</snip>

With regards to LDP, what about enabling mpls ldp session protection if you 
find that you really need it?  
(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0s/feature/guide/fssespro.html)

With regards to the OSPF/BFD integration, I'm not sure if it's the same for 
ISIS but I recently went through an exercise with BFD/ISIS integration where I 
was getting less than desirable results on a link failure while BFD tuned way 
down.  Turned out that regardless of how quickly BFD reacted, I still had to 
tune down the ISIS timers to react more quickly when BFD detected a link 
failure.

Now then, when I was testing this, I was using some pretty scary numbers, but 
ultimately got this to work in a lab, flawlessly.  The result was that I went 
from 6-7 seconds worth of packet loss to zero seconds of packet loss between 
CEs when I yanked a link between two P/PE routers.  Note that while I was able 
to achieve these results, I did so without ldp session protection enabled (I 
just recently read about it, but haven't had a chance to try it) and using 
L3VPNs, not EoMPLS.  Also, this was done between 7301s, not 6500s, so YMMV on 
both counts:

Here's what my end looked like:

!R1
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
 mpls ip
 bfd interval 50 min_rx 50 multiplier 3
 isis bfd
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 mpls ip
 bfd interval 50 min_rx 50 multiplier 3
 isis bfd
!
router isis
 spf-interval 5 1 50
 prc-interval 5 1 50
 lsp-gen-interval 5 1 50
!

!R2
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
 mpls ip
 bfd interval 50 min_rx 50 multiplier 3
 isis bfd
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 mpls ip
 bfd interval 50 min_rx 50 multiplier 3
 isis bfd
!
router isis
 spf-interval 5 1 50
 prc-interval 5 1 50
 lsp-gen-interval 5 1 50
!

P.S. While digging through the archives for content, I also found this, which 
may be of more help to your particular configuration:

!
router ospf 1
 timers throttle spf 10 100 5000
 timers throttle lsa all 10 100 5000
 timers lsa arrival 80
!
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