17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
2:36 a.m.
On (2015-02-16 20:33 -0500), Rob Seastrom wrote: Hey,
One might profitably ask why BFD wasn't designed to take advantage of high-TTL-shadowing, a la draft-gill-btsh.
RFC5881, section 5 in page 4 --- If BFD authentication is not in use on a session, all BFD Control packets for the session MUST be sent with a Time to Live (TTL) or Hop Limit value of 255. All received BFD Control packets that are demultiplexed to the session MUST be discarded if the received TTL or Hop Limit is not equal to 255. A discussion of this mechanism can be found in [GTSM]. --- -- ++ytti