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Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Configuration Guide 9.10(0.0)

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Configure BFD for BGP

In a BGP core network, bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) provides rapid detection of communication failures in BGP fast-forwarding paths between internal BGP (iBGP) and external BGP (eBGP) peers for faster network reconvergence.

BFD for BGP is supported on 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, port-channel, and VLAN interfaces. BFD for BGP does not support IPv6 and the BGP multihop feature.

Prerequisites

Before configuring BFD for BGP, you must first configure the following settings:
  1. Configure BGP on the routers that you want to interconnect, as described in Border Gateway Protocol IPv4 (BGPv4).
  2. Enable fast fall-over for BGP neighbors to reduce convergence time (the neighbor fall-over command), as described in Configuring BGP Fast Fail-Over .

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