Administrator Guide
• Establish sessions with all VRRP neighbors.
INTERFACE mode
vrrp bfd all-neighbors
Establishing VRRP Sessions on VRRP Neighbors
The master router does not care about the state of the backup router, so it does not participate in any VRRP BFD sessions.
VRRP BFD sessions on the backup router cannot change to the UP state. Congure the master router to establish an individual VRRP
session the backup router.
To establish a session with a particular VRRP neighbor, use the following command.
• Establish a session with a particular VRRP neighbor.
INTERFACE mode
vrrp bfd neighbor ip-address
Example of Viewing Sessions with VRRP Neighbors
Example of Viewing VRRP Session State Information
To view the established sessions, use the show bfd neighbors command.
The bold line shows that VRRP BFD sessions are enabled.
R1(conf-if-gi-4/25)#vrrp bfd all-neighbors
R1(conf-if-gi-4/25)#do show bfd neighbor
* - Active session role
Ad Dn - Admin Down
C - CLI
I - ISIS
O - OSPF
R - Static Route (RTM)
V - VRRP
LocalAddr RemoteAddr Interface State Rx-int Tx-int Mult Clients
* 2.2.5.1 2.2.5.2 Gi 4/25 Down 200 200 3 V
To view session state information, use the show vrrp command.
The bold line shows the VRRP BFD session.
R1(conf-if-gi-4/25)#do show vrrp
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GigabitEthernet 4/1, VRID: 1, Net: 2.2.5.1
State: Backup, Priority: 1, Master: 2.2.5.2
Hold Down: 0 sec, Preempt: TRUE, AdvInt: 1 sec
Adv rcvd: 95, Bad pkts rcvd: 0, Adv sent: 933, Gratuitous ARP sent: 3
Virtual MAC address:
00:00:5e:00:01:01
Virtual IP address:
2.2.5.4
Authentication: (none)
BFD Neighbors:
RemoteAddr State
2.2.5.2 Up
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
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