Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions
Dave Katz <dkatz@juniper.net> Mon, 28 February 2005 05:11 UTC
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Subject: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions
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For what it's worth, we made a very conscious decision to keep media-specific information out of BFD, and so far at least have been successful. The intent of BFD is to provide a pure liveness mechanism, which can operate at a very wide range of time constants, and is independent of media- and application-specific state and configuration management functions (which are typically intertwined, e.g., IGP Hellos.) BFD is intended to run along side the media-specific protocols, given that BFD has no discovery mechanism, and depends on such protocols (or, perish the thought, static configuration.) Further, most media-specific functions can either be made event-driven, or operate in a different magnitude of time than BFD, and as such are not appropriate to be carried in every packet, perhaps many times per second. --Dave
- RE: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… David Allan
- Re: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… zhaisuping
- Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions Thomas D. Nadeau
- Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions George Swallow
- Re: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… David Ward
- RE: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… David Allan
- Re: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… David Ward
- Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions Dave Katz
- Re: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… David Ward
- RE: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… David Allan
- Re: Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 ques… Jeffrey Haas
- Re: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions Thomas D. Nadeau
- RE: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions richard.spencer
- RE: draft-suping-bfd-mpls-fecmismatch-00 questions David Allan