On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Curtis Villamizar
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Henning,
>
> How can a router make use of throughput to a mostly idle neighbor?
> How do you get packets sent to a neighbor that dropped or packets that
> a neighbor sent to you that didn't arrive here?  Raw link speed or
> packet and byte counts don't by themselves tell you much.  The
> equivalent of PPP LQM or MPLS-TP LM OAM would be the sort of thing
> needed is you didn't want to use BFD with a high probe rate.

You need a bit of probing traffic... a few packets per second are
enough to give you an idea about the speed of the link. Of course you
only need to probe neighbors that you did not send normal unicast
anyways since the last probe.

Henning Rogge

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