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Extended Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
draft-mirmin-bfd-extended-02

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
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Authors Greg Mirsky , Xiao Min
Last updated 2020-04-12 (Latest revision 2019-10-10)
Replaced by draft-mmm-rtgwg-integrated-oam
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Abstract

This document describes a mechanism to extend the capabilities of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD). These extensions enable BFD to measure performance metrics like packet loss and packet delay. Also, a method to perform lightweight on-demand authentication is defined in this specification.

Authors

Greg Mirsky
Xiao Min

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