On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 at 22:28, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> (Not asking for any specific change, the discussion has I'm
> sure provided the IESG enough input already, but I'm curious...)
>
> On 10/17/24 20:46, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> >   It's just doing IP forwarding.
>
> You've said that a few times and I find it a little confusing.
>
> "Just IP forwarding" to me would not include replying to the sender
> of a BFD echo packet. ICMP yes, but I don't think BFD is a built-in
> part of an IP stack in general and "just forwarding" would in general
> be driven by rules wrt. the packet destination and not source.
>
> I wonder what I'm missing?


I would also like to understand this. One of my ballot comment is related
to this. This specification says the loop-back device doesn’t need to
support BFD, does this mean it can be any IP forwarder? I think the answer
should be yes.

//Zahed

>
>
> Ta,
> S.
>
>
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