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RFC 8971: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)

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This document describes the use of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol in point-to-point Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) tunnels used to form an overlay network.

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Document ID
RFC8971
Published
December 2020
Authors
S. Pallagatti; G. Mirsky; S. Paragiri; V. Govindan; M. Mudigonda
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
9
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