Hi BFDers,

We met a multi-vendor interoperate issue recently, it's about whether an Echo 
reply is necessary.

In Section 6 of RFC5884, 2nd paragraph

"... The egress LSR MAY respond with an LSP Ping Echo
   reply message that carries the local discriminator assigned by it for
   the BFD session."

>From the above text, my understanding is that an Echo reply is optional, the 
>egress LSR can freely to return or not return an Echo reply, and the Ingress 
>LSR should not expect there MUST be an Echo reply, but if there is one, it 
>should handle it properly.

Is my understanding correct? 

Thanks,
Mach

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