Dave Waters <davewaters1...@gmail.com> writes: > http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/2vxj9u/very_elegant_and_a_simple_way_to_secure_bfd/ > > Authentication mechanisms defined for IGPs cannot be used to protect BFD > since the rate at which packets are processed in BFD is very high. > > Dave
One might profitably ask why BFD wasn't designed to take advantage of high-TTL-shadowing, a la draft-gill-btsh. -r