Routing Configuration Guide, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Releases 17.x

Feature history for BFD protocol

Updated: February 6, 2026

Overview

Lists the development milestones and release information for BFD protocol, including feature description.

This table describes the developments of this feature, by release.

Table 1. Feature history
Feature name	Release information	Description
BFD Troubleshooting for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN	Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.15.1aCisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Release 20.15.1	This feature enables you to troubleshoot BFD protocols using radioactive tracing, check device logs, and use debugging commands to gather detailed information about BFD operations.
Automatically Suspend Unstable Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN BFD Sessions	Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.10.1aCisco vManage Release 20.10.1	With this feature you can automatically suspend unstable Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN BFD sessions based on flap-cycle thresholds or SLA parameters. It also allows you to monitor all suspended BFD sessions and manually reset them when needed.
BFD for Routing Protocols in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN	Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.3.1a Cisco vManage Release 20.3.1	This feature extends BFD support to BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution, allowing BFD to provide a consistent, uniform failure-detection method that quickly identifies forwarding-path failures and enables faster reconvergence.

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