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Syntax
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Release Information
Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 10.0.
Support for VPLS FEC 129 introduced in Junos OS Release 12.2.
Description
Allows you to configure bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) and a control channel for a pseudowire, in addition to the corresponding operations and management functions to be used over that control channel. BFD provides a low resource fault detection mechanism for the continuous monitoring of the pseudowire data path and for detecting data plane failures. The control-channel statement is not applicable to Layer 2 circuit pseudowires.
Options
The bfd-liveness-detection statement and substatements are described in the Junos OS Routing Protocols Library for Routing Devices.
The other statements are explained separately.
Required Privilege Level
routing—To view this statement in the configuration.
routing-control—To add this statement to the configuration.