Reshad,

> On Nov 2, 2015, at 9:29 PM, Reshad Rahman (rrahman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Santosh,
> 
> Even for single-hop we had discussions about implementations which support 
> the option of having multiple BFD single-hop sessions on 1 interface between 
> 2  endpoints. That was an argument for having the BFD config in routing 
> applications. This is what was discussed today in the WG. And I think Greg’s 
> point is that we don’t have to support this in the base model, but 
> implementations are have vendor specific model which supports this behavior.
Are there already vendor specific models/implementations in the single hop 
case? OR did you mean, there could be vendor specific extensions?

-sam
> 
> Regards,
> Reshad.
> 
> 
> From: Rtg-bfd <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> on 
> behalf of Santosh P K <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 1:25 AM
> To: Gregory Mirsky <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: RE: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
> 
> This is form RFC 5881 section 3.
>  
> In this application, there will be only a single BFD session between
>    two systems over a given interface (logical or physical) for a
>    particular protocol.  The BFD session must be bound to this
>    interface.
>  
> Which says for singlehop you will have only single BFD session for an 
> interface.  The case where we are struggling in Yang is for multihop BFD 
> session.
>  
> Thanks
> Santosh P K 
>  
>  
> From: Rtg-bfd [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Gregory Mirsky
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 7:57 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
>  
> Dear All,
> I think that this paragraph from Section 2 of RFC 5881 prohibits multiple 
> single-hop BFD sessions between the same pair of end points:
>    Each BFD session between a pair of systems MUST traverse a separate
>    network-layer path in both directions.  This is necessary for
>    demultiplexing to work properly, and also because (by definition)
>    multiple sessions would otherwise be protecting the same path.
>  
>                 Regards,
>                                 Greg

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