Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-idr-rs-bfd-02.txt

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Tue, 18 April 2017 20:24 UTC

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Robert,

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 10:34:49PM +0200, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> I think that everyone fully agrees that in order to consider prefix as
> valid the next hop to it should be reachable.
> 
> The only open question is how to detect it when you have no direct protocol
> adj. established.
> 
> Jeff seems stuck with BFD .. but there is number of folks who see S-BFD as
> much better fit to the problem.

Since you brought it up to the main mailing list, who are the other folks
besides yourself that thinks S-BFD is a better fit?

You're going to make me write that largeish e-mail that doesn't help the
discussion much about why S-BFD is not a good fit, aren't you?

> Yet UDP echo in some implementations
> already does it today.

As noted previously, the draft does permit for alternate means beyond BFD.
However, we have to pick one.  Standardizing ping is likely a bad idea. :-)


-- Jeff