Re: Re: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-bfd-generic-00.txt

[Suping Zhai <[e-mail]>]

David,
Please see the inline below.
>Suping -
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>On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:02:06AM +0800, Suping Zhai wrote:
>....snip..
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>> >I don't see how this is possible. BFD checks the forwarding plane created
>> >by other applications. Those applications are requesting from BFD the 
>> >fast notification of a failure. Since BFD doesn't setup the forwarding plane,
>> >it should bootstrap itself. 
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>> First, I mean that the time parameters is negotiated by the BFD session, not supplied by the applicatons.
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>The time parameters should be defined by config. Either via template, by the
>bootstrapping app, etc. I don't think I see an issue but, I might be still
> missing your point.

Yes, the time paramters are defined by config. But in the BFD session, time parameters could be changed during the negotiation. Perhaps it's more clear to add some description like "....and BFD provides the **parameters negotiation** and the session state, of which the most interesting transitions are to and from the Up state." --That's my point.

Suping

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>> Second, what does it mean by the last line above---"since BFD doesn't setup the forwarding plane, it should bootstrap ***itself***"???
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>It should be negative ... "should NOT bootstrap itself." Sorry for the 
>confusion.
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>-DWard