Re: BFD stability follow-up from IETF-91

[Manav Bhatia <[e-mail]>]

Hi Marc,


>
> * Greg's echo idea is of course do-able - when you think timestamping in
> hardware can be done then it can be done in the forwarding path for echos
> as
> well. Depends on your hardware :-) and on an agreed (minimal) format for
> echo. As mentioned BFD echo is not defined/used for multiple BFD features,
> which limits it's use though.
>
>
For the echo mechanism to work, do you agree that you would have to
continuously send Echos so that you can detect the issue?

Or are you suggesting that once BFD flaps we will start sending Echoes
overloaded with debug information to detect the issue?

I'd like to understand this before the mailing list sees a barrage of
emails. Alternatively, we can also take it offline and only report the
summary of our discussion to the list.

Cheers, Manav