Peter Hessler

Peter Hessler

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) implementation and support in OpenBSD

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Or: A new protocol actually /did/ improve our routing. Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a protocol that allows detecting faults in links or routes. This is similar to GRE keep-alives, but is actually supported on real routers. Contrary to traditional link-state detection, BFD works on the next-hop IP address; so one can detect failures of […]

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