Re: Direct BFD over Ethernet?

[Alexander Vainshtein <[e-mail]>]

Albrecht,
I guess you are right and it is indeed mainly the technology ownership issue.

To the best of my recollection the BFD WG hss tried to cooperate with IEEE 802.1, but these attempts have failed.

At the same time I think there is a difference in the overall attitude with regard to OAM between IETF and IEEE 802.1.

The former seems to consider OAM sessions (and, specifically, BFD) as "helpers" for some other protocols (e.g., routing): these sessions are usually set up when the "client protocol" peers establish a peering relationship, and failure of the OAM session is an indication of failure of the peering relationship of the client protocol (see RFC 5882 for details).

The latter seems to treat OAM mainly as providing indications (alarms) to the operator.

My 2c.

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From: Schwarz Albrecht (ETAS/ESY1)
Sent: Saturday, June 8, 11:47
Subject: RE: Direct BFD over Ethernet?
To: Jeffrey Haas, Stewart Bryant
Cc: Alexander Vainshtein, [e-mail]


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 Sent: 07 June 2019 13:56 To: Stewart Bryant Cc: Alexander Vainshtein ; Schwarz Albrecht (ETAS/ESY1) ; [e-mail] 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


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