are allowed as units, practical minimum values are usually in order of tens of
milliseconds.
+<p>Beware, all BFD instances pick up requests and sessions asynchronously, and
+any instance can pick up any matching request, regardless of the order in the
+configuration file. There may be a future update, allowing for strict matching,
+yet for now, we do not have such an option.
+
<code>
- protocol bfd [<name>] {
+ protocol bfd [<name>] {
accept [ipv4|ipv6] [direct|multihop];
- strict bind <switch>;
- zero udp6 checksum rx <switch>;
- interface <interface pattern> {
- interval <time>;
- min rx interval <time>;
- min tx interval <time>;
- idle tx interval <time>;
- multiplier <num>;
- passive <switch>;
+ strict bind <switch>;
+ zero udp6 checksum rx <switch>;
+ interface <interface pattern> {
+ interval <time>;
+ min rx interval <time>;
+ min tx interval <time>;
+ idle tx interval <time>;
+ multiplier <number>;
+ passive <switch>;
authentication none;
authentication simple;
authentication [meticulous] keyed md5|sha1;