On 29 November 2016 at 20:23, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> wrote:
Hey, > - eBGP with peering to interface addresses (not loopback) > - no multi-hop > - direct back-to-back connections (no intermediate devices except patch > panels) > > Possible failure scenarios where I could see this helping would be fat > fingering (filters implemented on one or the other side drops traffic from > the peer) or e.g. something catastrophic that causes the control plane to go > away without any last gasp to the peer. > > Or is adding BFD into the mix in this type of setup getting into increasing > effort/complexity (an additional protocol) for dimishing returns? If you have HW liveliness detection and fast-failover, I think BFD probably will just reduce availability due its failures being more probable than the edge cases in your setup. I personally would not run BFD here. -- ++ytti