Reference Guide

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Figure 7-3. BFD State Machine
Important Points to Remember
• BFD for line card ports is hitless, but is not hitless for VLANs since they are instantiated on the RPM.
• FTOS supports a maximum of 100 sessions per BFD agent. Each linecard processor has a BFD Agent,
so the limit translates to 100 BFD sessions per linecard (plus, on the E-Series, 100 BFD sessions on
RP2, which handles LAG and VLANs).
• BFD must be enabled on both ends of a link.
• Demand mode, authentication, and the Echo function are not supported.
• BFD is not supported on multi-hop and virtual links.
• Protocol Liveness is supported for routing protocols only.
• FTOS supports only OSPF, IS-IS, (E-Series, Z-Series and only), BGP ( only), and
VRRP (not on ) protocols as BFD clients.
Configuring Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
The remainder of this chapter is divided into the following sections:
• Configuring BFD for Physical Ports
• Configuring BFD for Static Routes
• Configuring BFD for OSPF
• Configuring BFD for IS-IS
• Configuring BFD for BGP
• Configuring BFD for VRRP
• Configuring BFD for VLANs
• Configuring BFD for Port-Channels
• Configuring Protocol Liveness
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