@techreport{vgovindan-l2vpn-evpn-bfd-02, number = {draft-vgovindan-l2vpn-evpn-bfd-02}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vgovindan-l2vpn-evpn-bfd/02/}, author = {Vengada Prasad Govindan and Samer Salam and Ali Sajassi}, title = {{Proactive fault detection in EVPN}}, pagetotal = 9, year = 2014, month = jul, day = 4, abstract = {This document proposes a proactive, in-band network OAM mechanism to detect connectivity faults that affect unicast and multi-destination paths in an EVPN network. The multi-destination paths are used by Broadcast, unknown Unicast and Multicast (BUM) traffic. The mechanisms proposed in the draft use the principles of the widely adopted Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol.}, }