Manual:Routing/BFD

BFD protocol for routing

Summary

BFD is a protocol intended to detect faults in the bidirectional path between two forwarding engines, including physical interfaces, sub-interfaces, data link(s), and to the extent possible the forwarding engines themselves, with potentially very low latency. It operates independently of media, data protocols, and routing protocols.

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD):

• hello protocol for checking bidirectional neighbor reachability;
• provides sub-second link failure detection support;
• not routing protocol specific, unlike protocol hello timers or such

Requirements

RouterOS 4.4 or newer with routing package installed.

Features supported

• asynchronous mode (draft-ietf-bfd-base-09.txt)
• BFD timer and detection multiplier configuration per interface;
• enabling BFD for OSPF interfaces
• enabling BFD for BGP peers
• single hop IPv4 and IPv6 transport (draft-ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop-10.txt)
• multihop IPv4 and IPv6 transport (draft-ietf-bfd-multihop-08.txt)

Configuration

BFD configuration should be added in different places as required

OSPF

/routing ospf interface add interface=all use-bfd=yes

BGP

/routing bgp peer add remote-address=x.x.x.x remote-as=xxxxx use-bfd=yes

BFD timer configuration

/routing bfd interface

BFD neighbor status

/routing bfd neighbor