Xiao Min,

> On Apr 7, 2023, at 3:15 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> On Apr 6, 2023, at 3:35 AM, <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> One of the considerations may be whether a IPv6 link local address is 
>> preferable to a global address.  
>> 
>> The only consideration for the draft as it is written is that the address 
>> used as the destination may be looped back by the unaffiliated device.  Link 
>> local helps address the security considerations that impact this feature, 
>> and it might be worth noting that when link local can be used for the use 
>> case that it assists in this point.
> [XM]>>> I checked this with the implementer of this feature, and I'm told 
> setting the DA to a IPv6 link local address doesn't work, because the link 
> local address can't be looped back by the neighboring device.
> 
> 

That's an interesting deficiency.  I will ask Juniper BFD developers if there's 
any similar consideration for our current implementation.

> [XM]>>> I propose the text change as below.
> 
> OLD
> 
> Device A would send BFD Unaffiliated Echo packets with IP destination
>    address destined for itself, such as the IP address of interface 1 of
>    device A.
> NEW
> 
> Device A would send BFD Unaffiliated Echo packets with IP destination
>    address destined for itself, such as the IP address of interface 1 of
>    device A. The IP source address of the BFD Unaffiliated Echo packets
>    could be identical to the IP destination address or other address 
> provisioned
>    on device A.
> 
> 
"could" isn't one of our RFC 2119 normative terms.  Do you believe "SHOULD" is 
more appropriate?

-- Jeff

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