On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:11:24PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > Traditionally, Open vSwitch has used a variant of 802.1ag "CFM" for > interface liveness detection. This has served us well until now, > but has several serious drawbacks which have steadily become more > inconvenient. First, the 802.1ag standard does not implement > several useful features forcing us to (optionally) break > compatibility. Second, 802.1.ag is not particularly popular > outside of carrier grade networking equipment. Third, 802.1ag is > simply quite awkward. > > In an effort to solve the aforementioned problems, this patch > implements BFD which is ubiquitous, well designed, straight > forward, and implements required features in a standard way. The > initial cut of the protocol focuses on getting the basics of the > specification correct, leaving performance optimizations, and > advanced features as future work. The protocol should be > considered experimental pending future testing. > > Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <[email protected]>
Since I was mostly happy with the first version, and you addressed that stuff, and we're planning to continue working on this, I think you can push it without another review. (I'm feeling some time pressure lately.) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
