[FROG] BFD peer changes logging

[Operations]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply! It looks like `debug bfd peer` gives us what we need. At this point we are just trying to confirm/monitor the up/down detection times with BFD.

Best regards,

Zsolt Gurmai
NOC
Red Matter Ltd.

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On 09/12/2020 17:24, Donald Sharp wrote:
> `debug bfd peer`  should turn on bfd peer debugging which will include
> state change notifications.  I assume though that you really are
> interested in `info` like messages ala what bgp does with `bgp
> log-neighbor-change`?
>
> donald
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:04 PM Operations <operations at redmatter.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are trying to set up BFD in our current FRR setup, but we seem to be stuck on BFD not logging anything useful, particularly when peer sessions are coming up or going down.
>>
>> We have simply added some BFD peers (not added BFD under BGP); when we run show bfd peers brief we can see the BFD session gets established:
>>
>> # show bfd peers brief
>> Session count: 2
>> SessionId  LocalAddress                             PeerAddress                             Status
>> =========  ============                             ===========                             ======
>> 3339805329 xxx.xxx.xxx.194                          xxx.xxx.xxx.193                         up
>> 856217853  yyy.yyy.yyy.13                           yyy.yyy.yyy.11                          up
>>
>> Logging is enabled:
>>
>> # show logging
>> ...
>> Logging configuration for bfdd:
>> Syslog logging: level debugging, facility daemon, ident bfdd
>> Stdout logging: level debugging
>> File logging: level debugging, filename /var/log/frr/bfdd.log
>> Protocol name: BFD
>> Record priority: disabled
>> Timestamp precision: 0
>>
>> We've expected that this will be enough to test the setup and were expected to see log lines when the session goes up or down, but get nothing. Also I couldn't find anything in the documentation that would hint that we might be missing something...
>>
>> Any help / pointers would be much appreciated!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Zsolt Gurmai
>> NOC
>> Red Matter Ltd.
>>
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