RFC 5880

"Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)", June 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5880.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

D. Katz
D. Ward

Stream:

IETF

Source:

bfd (app)

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Abstract

This document describes a protocol intended to detect faults in the bidirectional path between two forwarding engines, including interfaces, data link(s), and to the extent possible the forwarding engines themselves, with potentially very low latency. It operates independently of media, data protocols, and routing protocols. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.