[dev] BFDD file not present in FRR

[Donald Sharp]

To be clear - Direct bfdd integration happened in the 6.0
release/timeframe.  We did have bfd support via the ptmd ( and
external daemon ) but you have to track down ptmd and get it working
on your system.

donald
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:28 PM Martin Winter
<mwinter at opensourcerouting.org> wrote:
>
> Mayank,
>
> FRR 5.0 doesn’t support BFD yet.
> But I’m not sure why you see bfd files in the codebase.
>
> Can you give me an output of “zebra -v”
>
> 6.0 supports BFD and was just tagged today. There are no packages published
> (yet - they are still building and testing), but that should work fine
> with BFD.
>
> Also, be aware that BFD is not supported on all platforms.
> Specially some older platforms won’t support it. What OS/Distro are
> you using?
>
> Regards,
> Martin Winter
>
> On 8 Oct 2018, at 14:25, Mayank Tiwari wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I am using stable/5.0 branch of FRR. Also, I am referring to http://docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/bfd.html#starting-bfd link for BFD configuration.
>
>  The instruction asks to start bfd from '/usr/lib/frr/bfdd' location but I am not able to find /usr/lib/frr/bfdd file in that location. However, in the code base I can see bfd related files:
> root at frr-ppod4-0:/frr/lib# ls -lrt bfd.*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 10987 Aug 22 21:41 bfd.c
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  3399 Aug 22 21:55 bfd.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81184 Aug 22 22:00 bfd.o
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   282 Aug 22 22:00 bfd.lo
>
>  Can you please suggest on what I am missing here due to which bfdd file is not getting generated?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Mayank
>
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