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Cisco IOS XE Amsterdam 17.3.1 |
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Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a detection protocol that is designed to provide fast forwarding path failure detection for encapsulations, topologies, and routing protocols. BFD provides a consistent failure detection method. BFD detects forwarding path failures at a uniform rate, rather than the variable rates for different routing protocol. BFD detects forwarding path failures at a uniform rate, rather than the variable rates for different routing protocol. This feature is supported on the RSP2 module. |