Hi All, Multihop BFD (RFC 5883) packets are sent over UDP/IP. The encapsulation used is identical to single hop BFD (RFC 5881) except that the UDP destination port is set to 4784.
Now, suppose on the ingress node there is no IP/LFA backup path for the destination address tracked by multihop BFD, but there exists an an RLFA backup path to that destination. In this case, is multihop BFD expected to be protected using the RLFA backup path i.e should multihop BFD packets be sent over the RLFA backup path if the primary path goes down? If multihop BFD packets are to be sent over the RLFA backup path, what encapsulation should the ingress use? The encapsulation specified in RFC 5883 or the encapsulation specified in RFC 5884 (MPLS BFD)? Please let me know you opinion. Regards, Muthu
