No this is more than ping.. In essence it is, but is standardised and is supported on many vendors equipment including Cisco and Juniper etc as used by all our Transit providers..
It means that not only do we remove our BGP routes, but it means that our carriers also remove the routes for our ASN immediately allowing inbound traffic destined for us to be instantly rerouted via another one of the redundant Transit links for example instead of waiting a /long/ time for BGP.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_Forwarding_Detection On 29/10/13 15:05, sven falempin wrote: > So this is an ICMP ping with some authentification (on the gateway of a > route) ?? > > Why is this not overkill ? > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue 29 Oct 2013 14:55:05 GMT, Adam Thompson wrote: >> >>> On 13-10-28 11:54 AM, Andy wrote: >>> >>>> Would any of the esteemed OpenBSD developers be interested in adding >>>> support for BFD (Bidirectional Forward Detection) to OpenBSD. >>>> [...] >>>> '+1's welcome from others who would be interested to show signs of >>>> support/interest.. >>>> >>> I can only agree, BFD support would be a very nice thing to have, >>> considering that in other ways OpenBSD is already a very capable >>> router. I'm not in a position right now to pay someone properly to >>> implement it, but I can sustain the cost of another case or three of >>> beer. >>> >>> >> Amazing! >> >> So we just need to find an alcoholic developer and we're on our way ;) >> Could maybe send some caffeine and pro plus in the mean time ..
