Configure BFD for BGP

  • BFD protection of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) peering sessions allows for the rapid detection of link failures such that peering sessions can be taken out of the established state within fractions of a second.

    configure bgp {neighbor [all | remoteaddr ]} {bfd [on | off]}

Note

Note

The BFD setting can be applied on a per peer basis, the ability to set BFD on a peer-group or address-family basis is not currently supported. The BGP peer must be in the disabled admin state to modify its BFD setting. While BFD can be enabled on any BGP peering session, protection is only be provided for directly connected EBGP/IBGP peering sessions.