Thanks Sasha, Jeff & Stewart for your reply! OK, understood, more a technology ownership question (IEEE 802 vs IETF) than a technical issue. Running BFD directly over Ethernet would (at least) require to assign an Ethertype codepoint (https://www.iana.org/assignments/ieee-802-numbers/ieee-802-numbers.xml ) for BFD.
But BFD-over-Ethernet seems to be then in direct competition with the IEEE 802.1ag defined OAM capabilities (guess the Connectivity Fault Management protocols), i.e., the IEEE Continuity Check protocol. My rough understanding. Thanks again! Albrecht -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> Sent: 07 June 2019 13:56 To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bry...@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Vainshtein <alexander.vainsht...@ecitele.com>; Schwarz Albrecht (ETAS/ESY1) <albrecht.schw...@etas.com>; Rtg-bfd@ietf.org Subject: Re: Direct BFD over Ethernet? On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:20:30PM +0100, Stewart Bryant wrote: > > +1 > > However if you really want BFD, you only need a lightweight IP > implementation to carry it. During the work for BFD for LAG, IETF already went a bit too close to stepping into IEEE territory. Raw BFD over Ethernet would not be received very well by that organization, I think. (Even if it'd be trivial to specify.) -- Jeff
