IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

The Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol provides short-duration detection of failures in the path between adjacent forwarding engines while maintaining low networking overheads. The BFD IS-IS Client Support feature enables Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) to use Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) support, which improves IS-IS convergence as BFD detection and failure times are faster than IS-IS convergence times in most network topologies. The IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support feature enables the network to identify whether a BFD session failure is genuine or is the result of a control plane failure due to a router restart. When planning a router restart, you should configure this feature on all neighboring routers.

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Prerequisites for IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

  • IS-IS must be running on all participating devices.

  • The baseline parameters for BFD sessions must be configured on the interfaces that run BFD sessions to BFD neighbors.

Information About IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

IS-IS Restarts and BFD Sessions

The IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support feature provides BFD with a way to signal to its peers whether the BFD implementation shares the same status as the control plane. When a neighboring router’s control plane restarts, a BFD session failure may occur, which does not actually represent a true forwarding failure. If this happens, you do not want the neighbors of the restarting router to react to the BFD session failure.

IS-IS does not have protocol extensions that allow it to signal in advance that it will be restarting. This means that the system cannot distinguish between a real forwarding failure and a restart. The IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support feature allows you to configure the device to ignore control-plane related BFD session failures. We recommend that you configure this feature on the neighbors of a restarting device just prior to the planned restart of that device and that you remove the configuration after the restart has been completed.

The table below shows how the control plane independent failure status received from BFD on a session down event impacts IS-IS handling of that event.

Table 1. Control Plane Failure and Session Down Events

IS-IS Check Control Plane Failure

BFD Control Plane Independent Failure Status

IS-IS Action on BFD session 'DOWN' Event

Enabled

True

Accept session DOWN

Enabled

False

Ignore session DOWN

Disabled

True

Accept session DOWN

Disabled

False

Accept session DOWN

How to Configure IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

Configuring IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

Perfrom this task to enable control plane failure checking.

SUMMARY STEPS

  1. enable
  2. configure terminal
  3. router isis
  4. bfd check-control-plane-failure
  5. end

DETAILED STEPS

  Command or Action Purpose
Step 1

enable

Example:


Device> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

  • Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal

Example:


Device# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

router isis

Example:


Device(config)# router isis

Enables the IS-IS routing protocol and enters router configuration mode.

Step 4

bfd check-control-plane-failure

Example:


Device(config-router)# bfd check-control-plane-failure

Enables BFD control plane failure checking for the IS-IS routing protocol.

Step 5

end

Example:


Device(config-router)# end

Exits router configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Configuration Examples for IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

Example: Configuring IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

The following example configures control plane failure detection on a router running the IS-IS protocol. 

Device> enable
Device# configure terminal
Device(config)# router isis
Device(config-router)# bfd check-ctrl-plane-failure
Device(config-router)# end

Additional References

Related Documents

Related Topic

Document Title

Cisco IOS commands

Cisco IOS Master Command List, All Releases

BFD commands: complete command syntax, command mode, command history, defaults, usage guidelines, and examples

Cisco IOS IP Routing: Protocol-Independent Command Reference

Configuring and monitoring IS-IS

“Configuring Integrated IS-IS” module of the Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Configuration Guide

Cisco IOS IPv6 features

Cisco IOS IPv6 Feature Mapping

Standards and RFCs

Standard/RFC

Title

RFC 5882

Generic Application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)

Technical Assistance

Description

Link

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http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/support/index.html

Feature Information for IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

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Table 2. Feature Information for IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support

15.1(1)SY

15.3(1)T

The IS-IS Client for BFD C-Bit Support feature enables the network to identify whether a BFD session failure is genuine or is the result of a control plane failure due to a router restart.

The following command was introduced: bfd check-ctrl-plane-failure .