Sasha,

On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 07:34:35AM +0000, Alexander Vainshtein wrote:
> Can you please comment also on proposed usage of Destination UDP Port 3784 
> (reserved for single-hop IP BFD control packets in RFC 5881) in encapsulation 
> of the EVPN-BFD Control packets?

As I mentioned during the IETF 124 BESS session, I was trying to understand
the scenario better.  I had later run into Prasad who has helped me talk
through my concerns a bit better.

My concern was whether the UDP port number could be confused by the
receiving implementation to try to do single hop BFD behaviors rather than
appropriate EVPN behaviors.

However, we have existence proof for MPLS (RFC 5884) and VxLAN (RFC 8971)
that UDP port 3784 can successfully be dispatched by the implementations
through their respective encapsulations.  Thus, I see no specific problem
with similar reuse for EVPN.

-- Jeff

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