Hi Zahed, On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 10:54:21PM +0200, Zaheduzzaman Sarker wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 at 22:28, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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.
Exactly. Best regards, Erik
