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Title : Motivation for Benchmarking BFD Protocol Implementations
Author(s) : E. Salahuddin, J. Karthik
Filename : draft-salahuddin-bmwg-bfd-motivation-00.txt
Pages : 8
Date : 2007-2-28
This document describes the motivation for benchmarking the
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol. The BFD protocol
is a relatively new protocol intended to detect failures in the
bidirectional path between two network elements, with potentially
very low latency [BFD, BFD-GEN]. The BFD protocol is being
implemented by several vendors and is being deployed extensively by
the service providers. Hence, it is imperative that common
understanding is established for performance and conformance
benchmarks as well as interoperability. This draft seeks to generate
interest on this topic in the working group. If there is sufficient
interest on this topic, drafts that address the Methodology and
Terminology for the BFD protocol could be proposed; before BMWG could
make this an official working group item.
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