May 2013

1. What is NSF NSF is a feature that allows routers to keep on forwarding traffic (non stop forwarding) even in the event of a restart. This is done by separating the control and the data plane, having one process involved in building the routing table and another process in …

1. What is BFD? BFD stands for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection and it’s a protocol that is used for rapid detection of link failures when the line-protocol is still “up”. BFD is enabled on interface and creates a BFD session with the neighboring router (BFD Peer). Routing protocols such as EIGRP, …