Service Manual
Administratively
Down
The local system does not participate in a particular session.
Down The remote system is not sending control packets or at least not within the detection time for a particular
session.
Init The local system is communicating.
Up Both systems are exchanging control packets.
The session is declared down if:
• A control packet is not received within the detection time.
• Sucient echo packets are lost.
• Demand mode is active and a control packet is not received in response to a poll packet.
BFD Three-Way Handshake
A three-way handshake must take place between the systems that participate in the BFD session.
The handshake shown in the following illustration assumes that there is one active and one passive system, and that this session is
the rst session established on this link. The default session state on both ports is Down.
1. The active system sends a steady stream of control packets that indicates that its session state is Down, until the passive
system responds. These packets are sent at the desired transmit interval of the Active system. The Your Discriminator eld is
set to zero.
2. When the passive system receives any of these control packets, it changes its session state to Init and sends a response that
indicates its state change. The response includes its session ID in the My Discriminator eld and the session ID of the remote
system in the Your Discriminator eld.
3. The active system receives the response from the passive system and changes its session state to Up. It then sends a control
packet indicating this state change. This is the third and nal part of the handshake. Now the discriminator values have been
exchanged and the transmit intervals have been negotiated.
4. The passive system receives the control packet and changes its state to Up. Both systems agree that a session has been
established. However, because both members must send a control packet — that requires a response — anytime there is a
state change or change in a session parameter, the passive system sends a nal response indicating the state change. After
this, periodic control packets are exchanged.
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