I suppose so but BFD certainly has alot more moving parts then adding MDF checksums to an existing control packet. I'm not saying everyone should turn it on or off for that matter. I just don't see what the big deal is. Most of the shops I've seen have it on because of some long forgotten engineering standard. 2012/1/30 John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:52:41 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
Unfortunately, Network Engineers are lazy, impatient, and frequently clueless as well.
While the quantity of peering sessions I've had is far less than yours, once upon a time when I had tried to get MD5 on dozens of peering sessions I learned quite a bit about those engineers and those networks. I got to find out who couldn't do password management, who never heard of MD5 and who had been listening to Patrick. :-) All good input that inform what else I might want to do to protect myself from those networks or who I wouldn't mind having a business relationship with.
John