Hi Greg, just one thing quickly
> Am 05.07.2018 um 21:27 schrieb Greg Mirsky <gregimir...@gmail.com>: > > 2) See sec 7 of RFC 8085 > "When BFD is used across multiple hops, a congestion control mechanism > MUST be implemented, and when congestion is detected, the BFD > implementation MUST reduce the amount of traffic it generates. " > GIM>> I couldn't find this in RFC 8085 and had to broaden my search. I > believe that thsi quote is from RFC 7880 Seamless BFD. I'm puzzled why this > specification, when talking about challenges S-BFD may face, switches to > requirement for BFD. Doesn't look right. And more, increasing transmission > interval to avoid packet drop defeats the purpose of using proactive defect > detection mechanism. The purpose of the fault management is to detect > failures, not to avoid the detection. If active OAM generates excess of > traffic, then other OAM mechanisms can be considered and used. But loosening > OAM is not, in my view, proper way to address network problem as it rather > hides them, not detets and reports as it intended to do. This quote is from RFC5880. The BFD base spec. Sorry that was copy and past error!
