Many thanks.
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 10:13 AM
From: "Ben Pfaff" <b...@ovn.org>
To: "james hopper" <jameshop...@email.com>
Cc: "OVS Discussion" <discuss@openvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Link Failure detection time
From: "Ben Pfaff" <b...@ovn.org>
To: "james hopper" <jameshop...@email.com>
Cc: "OVS Discussion" <discuss@openvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Link Failure detection time
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 07:57:28AM +0200, james hopper wrote:
> I have a simple question about the time OVS takes to detect link failure if i
> don't explicitly enable BFD on interfaces? It seems that port down message is
> immediately generated, while link failure detection is taking some additional
> time. What is the exact time after which the link is considered down?
OVS doesn't have any special link failure detection logic. Without BFD
or CFM, it's a matter of whatever your NIC driver does.
> I have a simple question about the time OVS takes to detect link failure if i
> don't explicitly enable BFD on interfaces? It seems that port down message is
> immediately generated, while link failure detection is taking some additional
> time. What is the exact time after which the link is considered down?
OVS doesn't have any special link failure detection logic. Without BFD
or CFM, it's a matter of whatever your NIC driver does.
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