Concept Guide
• A BFD session is enabled for the directly connected next-hop neighbor specied in the congured destination prex list.
• If you attach an empty prex-list, all the existing established BFD sessions are teared down. If a destination prex or prex range is not
present in the prex-list, then it is considered as an implicit deny.
• When a destination prex is deleted from the prex-list using the no permit option, the corresponding BFD session is torn down
immediately. In this scenario, the BFD session tear down occurs only if the other destination prexes in the prex-list are not pointing to
the same neighbor.
• The permit option enables creation of a BFD session for the specied static destination prex or prex range. The system prevents
creation of BFD sessions for all other destination prexes that are explicitly specied as Deny in the prex list.
• If other destination prexes in the prex-list are pointing to the same neighbor, then the no permit or the deny option on a
particular destination prex neither creates a BFD session on a neighbor nor removes the static routes from the unicast database.
• BFD sessions created using any one IP prex list are active at any given point in time. If a new prex list is assigned, then BFD sessions
corresponding to the older (existing) prex list are replaced with the newer ones.
• Each time a prex list is modied, only addition or deletion of new entries in that prex list are processed for BFD session establishment
or tear down.
Changing Static Route Session Parameters
BFD sessions are congured with default intervals and a default role.
The parameters you can congure are: Desired TX Interval, Required Min RX Interval, Detection Multiplier, and system role. These
parameters are congured for all static routes. If you change a parameter, the change aects all sessions for static routes.
To change parameters for static route sessions, use the following command .
• Change parameters for all static route sessions.
CONFIGURATION mode
ip route bfd interval milliseconds min_rx milliseconds multiplier value role [active |
passive]
To view session parameters, use the show bfd neighbors detail command, as shown in the examples in Displaying BFD for BGP
Information.
Disabling BFD for Static Routes
If you disable BFD, all static route BFD sessions are torn down.
A nal Admin Down packet is sent to all neighbors on the remote systems, and those neighbors change to the Down state.
To disable BFD for static routes, use the following command.
• Disable BFD for static routes.
CONFIGURATION mode
no ip route bfd
Congure BFD for IPv6 Static Routes
BFD oers systems a link state detection mechanism for static routes. With BFD, systems are notied to remove static routes from the
routing table as soon as the link state change occurs, rather than waiting until packets fail to reach their next hop.
Conguring BFD for IPv6 static routes is a three-step process:
1 Enable BFD globally.
2 Congure static routes on both routers on the system (either local or remote).
3 Congure an IPv6 route to connect BFD on the static routes using the ipv6 route bfd command.
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