kbfd

Last Update $Date: 2008-01-28 23:13:40 -0800 (Mon, 28 Jan 2008) $

kbfd is BFD(Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) implementation in Linux Kernel Module.

This could be control kbfd and utilize for ospfd/ospf6d/bgpd to use bfd fast failure detection.

News

• 2008/01/30
  quagga patch (for anoncvs.quagga.net) is available.
• 2007/03/26
  It is available patch for zebra-0.95a.
• 2007/04/01
  Now kbfd patch is included in zebra cvs repositlry(with --enable-kbfd-support)
• 2007/03/26
  It is available patch for zebra-0.95a.

Specification

• base specification
  • draft-ietf-bfd-base-05.txt
  • draft-ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop-05.txt
  • draft-ietf-bfd-generic-02.txt
• (future plan)
  • draft-ietf-bfd-multihop-04.txt
  • draft-ietf-bfd-mib-03.txt

Requirement

• linux kernel version linux-2.6.16 source tree at least.
• CONFIG_IPV6 or ipv6.ko(in case module build)

Download

• kbfd-0.1.tar.gz
• kbfd-0.1-zebra-0.95a.patch.gz

Howto

• How to INSTALL

    tar xfz kbfd-$(VERSION).tar.gz
    cd kbfd
    make
    sudo make install
  

• How to build zebra with bfd-enabled

   cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.zebra.org:/cvsroot login
   cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.zebra.org:/cvsroot co zebra
   cd zebra
   cp $(somewhere)/kbfd_netlink.h ./
   ./configure --enable-kbfd-support
   make
  

• How to run kbfd

    sudo modprobe kbfd
  

• How to use zebra with enable-bfd

    ip ospf bfd-enable
    ipv6 ospf bfd-enable
    neighbor (A.B.C.D|X:X::X:X) bfd-enable
    show bfd neighbors