Faster network convergence??? Yes please! BFD on MikroTik!

Want to learn how to get faster network convergence in the event of a link going down? Look no further! BFD is an amazing protocol that you can run with your routing protocols to make convergence as quickly as 1 2 3. I will give you a brief overview of the benefits of BFD and how to configure this on your MikroTik routers on both BGP and OSPF.

EVE-NG Setup:

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:24 - BFD Brief Overview
03:04 - Demonstration of convergence time without BFD
04:48 - BFD Configuration
06:42 - Enabling BFD on BGP
08:30 - Enabling BFD on OSPF

Credits:
Song: Max Brhon - Illusion [NCS Release]
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Song: Max Brhon - The Future [NCS Release]
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Song: Max Brhon - Humanity [NCS Release]
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Intro Music: Ringtail - Waking Up

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Thanks again for watching

[romanmikhalev]

Great explanation of the protocol, thanks!

[thefixitgal]

Great video thanks <3 Your videos are great.!

[m-electronics]

7:41 Strange, in documentation of BFD stand that it hasn´t a neighor discovery? Here it looks it has someone? 🤔

[MdAlamgirHossainChannel]

you are just doing great job. please make video on MPLS

[derekm]

I have been running BFD on my small network for awhile but recently after setting up a BGP signaled VPLS similar to in your videos I started running into issues with it and have come to learn BFD is actually officially considered broken by mikrotik since 2015 or maybe even before and they have no plans to fix until it is implemented again in version 7.

[xMiMiCx]

What type of network switch can I purchase for a home network that has this so I can configure it? Thanks.

[oliver]

Thank you, you are helping me become a better Network Engineer. Just to confirm if I wanted to use BFD on my eBGP Upstream IP Transits I would have to get my Upstream IP Transit provider to enable it on their side too? I wonder if the Upstream providers would be open to configuring it (HE, Cogent, etc).

[jkbbv]

Thanks. Is it called the same on other router brands? Or is this a proprietary Mikrotik protocol?

[tumwesigyearthur]

How can i apply BFD to static routes in microtik. lets say i have two different next hops.(ie backup and primary)

[kuldeepsarma]

Hi there, I am trying to run BFD on lag interfaces from Mikrotik router to Cisco switch, but its flaps continuously. But when we have only one interface in the lag it works fine. The moment we add more interface in the lag issue starts.