Dell Force10 S4810P Configuration Manual page 146

2. Establish a session with a next-hop neighbor.
Related configuration tasks
• Viewing physical port session
• Disabling and re-enabling
Enabling BFD globally
BFD must be enabled globally on both routers, as shown in the illustration in
physical ports.
To enable BFD globally:
Step Task
1 Enable BFD globally.
Verify that BFD is enabled globally using the command
R1(conf)#bfd ?
enable
protocol-liveness
R1(conf)#bfd enable
R1(conf)#do show running-config bfd
!
bfd enable
R1(conf)#
Establishing a session on physical ports
To establish a session, BFD must be enabled at interface level on both ends of the link, as shown in the
illustration below. The configuration parameters do not need to match.
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| Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
parameters.
BFD.
Enable BFD protocol
Enable BFD protocol-liveness
Establishing a session on
Command Syntax
bfd enable
, as shown in the example below.
show running bfd
Command Mode
CONFIGURATION