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From: Raymond Burkholder [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 5:05 PM
To: Vivek Srivastava V
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] BFD with 'option : remote_ip = flow'


> On 16 Aug 2017, at 07:54, Vivek Srivastava V 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No.  I hadn't heard of multi-hop BFD before, so I looked around a bit and 
> found RFC 5883.  That RFC, though, doesn't really provide a specification for 
> how to do this.  Is there a detailed specification somewhere else?
> 
> [Viveks] Unfortunately I also couldn't find any implementation 
> specific details about multihop BFD, other than RFC 5883 and some 
> configuration related info available on the net. What I could gather 
> is that it is mostly same as onehop BFD, with some additional 
> considerations-

Out of curiosity, would you be able to explain what your use case is?  I gather 
you don’t have a BFD partner on the ‘other end’ of the layer 2 link?  And that 
you are going across some sort of layer 3 network?  And if that is a multi-hop 
l3 network, don’t things get a bit dicey in terms of time-outs, possible 
changes in packet flows, etc?

[Viveks] the use case is to monitor availability of DCGWs from computes in a DC 
with L3 fabric. There will be multiple (but limited) l3 hops in between. I 
believe BFD is still applicable in this scenario and it should be okay with 
possible change in packet flows/paths. Time-outs/false failure detections can 
be avoided with appropriate/tuned monitoring intervals. Do you see any other 
issues in this scenario?

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