Reference Guide

114 | Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
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Configuring Protocol Liveness
Protocol Liveness is a feature that notifies the BFD Manager when a client protocol is disabled. When a
client is disabled, all BFD sessions for that protocol are torn down. Neighbors on the remote system
receive an Admin Down control packet and are placed in the Down state.
To enable Protocol Liveness:
Step Task Command Syntax Command Mode
1 Enable Protocol Liveness bfd protocol-liveness CONFIGURATION