Re: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

2019-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Haas
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:45:54PM +, Alexander Vainshtein wrote: > Albrecht, Reshad and all, > I concur with Reshad - it will work (RFC 7130 never says anything about the > number of links in the LAG). A somewhat perverse use of the feature. Cute. :-) > Such a session would still use encaps

RE: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

2019-06-12 Thread Alexander Vainshtein
Albrecht, Reshad and all, I concur with Reshad - it will work (RFC 7130 never says anything about the number of links in the LAG). Such a session would still use encapsulation in IP/UDP with the UDP destination port set to 6784 and the Destination IP address " that is configured on the peer sys

Re: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

2019-06-12 Thread Reshad Rahman (rrahman)
Hi, That should work. Are you referring to the encapsulation overhead? Regards, Reshad. On 2019-06-12, 10:30 AM, "Rtg-bfd on behalf of Schwarz Albrecht (ETAS/ESY1)" wrote: Thanks again all for recommendations and background information. With regards to RFC 7130: > Bidirectio

RE: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

2019-06-12 Thread Schwarz Albrecht (ETAS/ESY1)
Thanks again all for recommendations and background information. With regards to RFC 7130: > Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) on Link Aggregation Group (LAG) > Interfaces Actually, I was thinking about a group size of one ("whereas the normal LAG is > 1") to emulate BFD over a single ph

RE: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

2019-06-12 Thread Alexander Vainshtein
Jeffrey, Lots of thanks for a prompt response. I tend to agree with your statement that " IETF doesn't have a useful OAM model". But I would add that, in spite of that, IETF has a rich set of OAM tools that are widely deployed and serve the real needs of the IETF community reasonably well, and