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Re: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Fri, 07 June 2019 11:55 UTC

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From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Vainshtein <Alexander.Vainshtein@ecitele.com>, "Schwarz Albrecht (ETAS/ESY1)" <albrecht.schwarz@etas.com>, "Rtg-bfd@ietf.org" <Rtg-bfd@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Direct BFD over Ethernet?
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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

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