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Interesting BFD discussion on reddit
- Subject: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit
- From: rs at seastrom.com (Rob Seastrom)
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:33:17 -0500
- In-reply-to: <CAARSoVzjf9n_2sYmuOMVRzx=Q7kAWXjgyGRC2PmkgwU-Nt_B=w@mail.gmail.com> (Dave Waters's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:34:57 +0530")
- References: <CAARSoVzjf9n_2sYmuOMVRzx=Q7kAWXjgyGRC2PmkgwU-Nt_B=w@mail.gmail.com>
Dave Waters <davewaters1970 at gmail.com> writes:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/2vxj9u/very_elegant_and_a_simple_way_to_secure_bfd/
>
> Authentication mechanisms defined for IGPs cannot be used to protect BFD
> since the rate at which packets are processed in BFD is very high.
>
> Dave
One might profitably ask why BFD wasn't designed to take advantage of
high-TTL-shadowing, a la draft-gill-btsh.
-r