Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Protocol Cheat Sheet
Definition This is a protocol initially described in RFC5880 and IPv4/IPv6 specifics in RFC5881. I would say this is an aggressive 'hello-like' protocol with shorter timers but very lightweight on t...
Published Aug 22, 2019
Version 1.0
dragonflymr
Cirrostratus
CirrostratusHi,
Thanks for fast reply and provided info. I just wonder how BFD (in context of static routing) can be used in real life. If BIG-IP will detect that next hop router is down via BFD what will happen? Nothing - it's just info, some action (can be set up)?
Wonder as well if you can configure multiple next hop routers for single Floating IP - like when you have few static routes pointing to different next hop routers in the smae VLAN.
Piotr