howto/Bird2.md
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### Use BFD in bird2
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-BFD is an additional protocol with extremely low overhead to detect failures in the switching plane between peers,
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+BFD is an additional protocol to detect failures in the switching plane between peers,
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it is used widely by cleanet peerings and some networks in DN42 already have enabled it globally.
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To do a basic configuration you need to add 1 line to your bird.conf and enable it per peer or globally by defining it in the
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template.
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protocol bgp <NEIGHBOR_NAME> from dnpeers {
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enable extended messages on;
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bfd graceful;
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+ bfd {
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+ interval 10s;
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+ };
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neighbor <NEIGHBOR_IPv6>%<NEIGHBOR_INTERFACE> as <NEIGHBOR_ASN>;
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# Or:
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# neighbor <NEIGHBOR_IPv6> as <NEIGHBOR_ASN>;