Administrator Guide

Disabling BFD for Static Routes
If you disable BFD, all static route BFD sessions are torn down.
A final 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
Configure BFD for IPv6 Static Routes
BFD offers systems a link state detection mechanism for static routes. With BFD, systems are notified 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.
Configuring BFD for IPv6 static routes is a three-step process:
1. Enable BFD globally.
2. Configure static routes on both routers on the system (either local or remote).
3. Configure an IPv6 route to connect BFD on the static routes using the ipv6 route bfd command.
Related Configuration Tasks
• Changing IPv6 Static Route Session Parameters
• Disabling BFD for Static Routes
Establishing Sessions for IPv6 Static Routes for Default VRF
Sessions are established for all neighbors that are the next hop of a static route on the default VRF.
To establish a BFD session, use the following command.
• Establish BFD sessions for all IPv6 neighbors that are the next hop of a static route.
CONFIGURATION mode
ipv6 route bfd [prefix-list prefix-list-name] [interval interval min_rx min_rx multiplier
value role {active | passive}]
To verify that sessions have been created for static routes, use the show bfd neighbors command.
To view detailed session information, use the show bfd neighbors detail command, as shown in the examples in .
Establishing Sessions for IPv6 Static Routes for Nondefault VRF
You can also create nondefault VRFs and establish sessions for all neighbors that are the next hop of a static route.
To establish a BFD session for nondefault VRFs, use the following command.
• Establish BFD sessions for all IPv6 neighbors that are the next hop of a static route.
CONFIGURATION mode
ipv6 route bfd vrf vrf-name [prefix-list prefix-list-name] [interval interval min_rx min_rx
multiplier value role {active | passive}]
Example Configuration and Verification
The following example contains static routes for both default and nondefault VRFs.
Dell#show run | grep bfd
bfd enable
ipv6 route bfd prefix-list p6_le
ipv6 route bfd vrf vrf1
ipv6 route bfd vrf vrf2
ipv6 route bfd vrf vrf1 prefix-list p6_le
The following example shows that sessions are created for static routes for the default VRF.
The following example shows that sessions are created for static routes for the nondefault VRFs.
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Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)