You would know if it were acknowledged – they typically reply with a comment along the lines of: “we were able to reproduce the issue and will address it in a future release. We are not able to guarantee a timeline for that update, and encourage you to watch future release notes for information” Sure, please send what you’ve got (behaviour detail, diagnostics, and ESPECIALLY reproduction steps) to support@duxtel.com <mailto:support@duxtel.com> and ask that it be relayed to MT support. Our team corresponds with them regularly, and seem to get reasonable response ‘most times’ ; ) Cheers! Mike. From: Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag@rendrag.net> Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2024 10:58 AM To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> Cc: Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Soooo, how does one get BFD to come up on ROS 7? :) Morning Mike :) I'm not sure, I haven't been able to find a public buglist anywhere, other than the one that comes up on page one of google - but that looks to only be for ROS6? I'd be very happy to pass through all my debugging info to your tech team, if you think you can get Mikrotik to look at it :) (Have they gotten any better? I reported a bunch of things 8-9 years ago, but never actually got replies, or they would take 3-4 months before I got 'hi, please try the latest release and see if it still happens', so I just gave up bothering, and started hacking around the issues..) Thanks, Damien On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 10:44, Mike Everest via Public <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au <mailto:public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> > wrote: Good morning! Are MT aware of that bug, and have they 'acknowledged' it? If not, sounds like it is worth making sure it is added to their buglist for future attention :-} You are welcome to pass it through our tech team at support@duxtel.com <mailto:support@duxtel.com> if you think we can help to get it on their radar! :-} Cheers, Mike. -----Original Message----- From: Public <public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au <mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au> > On Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr via Public Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2024 10:21 AM To: TFM Cloud - Dirk Bermingham <dirk@tfmcloud.au <mailto:dirk@tfmcloud.au> > Cc: Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag@rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net> >; MikroTik Australia Public List <public@talk.mikrotik.com.au <mailto:public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> > Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Soooo, how does one get BFD to come up on ROS 7? :) Thanks, that got it sorted. It's a ROS7 bug, not honouring the configured min_tx on the BFD session, and always sending 1000ms for min_tx - which is above the maximum 999ms for Cisco Nexus, so BFD can't be established.. Would be good if their Documentation mentioned that this setting was not honoured, and was hardcoded to 1000ms... I guess I stay with ROS6! Wish I'd realised before I upgraded this router though :( Thanks for your time, Dirk! :) On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 17:53, TFM Cloud - Dirk Bermingham <dirk@tfmcloud.au <mailto:dirk@tfmcloud.au> > wrote:
One more thing, if you set up a BGP session without BFD, does the session show bfd in the capabilities for the remote end?
Whatever the issue is, it’ll be small and stupid and the session will suddenly come alive once you nail it down, BFD has been really solid for us.
On 20 Aug 2024, at 5:41 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag@rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net> > wrote:
Thanks Dirk,
Yep, it was all working on ROS6 before the upgrade. Allowing all in the firewall from the TOR switch interface IP. Good question though, I’ll setup a capture piped back to my workstation later tonight and see exactly what’s going over there!
(My bgp is internal to sau, announcing the smaller prefixes I use in my lab, not talking to the public routers - so it’s one physical link, no trunking - afaik we don’t support BFD unless you are directly peering on one of the ‘big’ routers for public BGP)
Thanks!
Damien
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 5:36 PM, TFM Cloud - Dirk Bermingham < dirk@tfmcloud.au <mailto:dirk@tfmcloud.au> > wrote:
What a way to spend a sick day :)
Dumb question, the remote end definitely supports bfd? (My SAU links don’t :( )
Are you permitting 3784 UDP and 3785 TCP/UDP in your input and output chains?
Can you see 3784/3785 traffic on your BGP interface?
BFD on my configs is pretty much as simple as yours, > interface listed in BFD > bfd = yes in BGP > firewall rules permitting…
Hope something in there helps,
DB
On 20 Aug 2024, at 4:52 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr via Public < public@talk.mikrotik.com.au <mailto:public@talk.mikrotik.com.au> > wrote:
So, I was off work sick today, have been holding off on upgrading all
'production' gear to ROS 7 until BFD support was a thing. Supposedly it's now supported, so I upgraded one of my routers (RB1100AHx4). And yeah, BFD does not appear to work :(
Asked a few colleagues, and it's working for them. We compared configs, and identical configs basically, just different hardware on the other side.
Is there a trick to it? Is it only supported on specific Mikrotik hardware? Or only TO/FROM specific remote hardware? I tried enabling logging (/system logging add prefix=debug topics=bfd), which didn't really add anything.. Remote end is Cisco Nexus
Config is basically:
/routing bfd configuration add disabled=no interfaces=vlan300_WyongBGP /routing bgp connection add as=65001 connect=yes disabled=no hold-time=6s input.filter=BGP_SAU_TOR_IN_V4 keepalive-time=2s listen=yes local.address=103.235.x.x .role=ebgp name=SAU-TOR-WYONG-V4 output.filter-chain=BGP_SAU_TOR_OUT_V4 \ .network=bgp-networks .no-client-to-client-reflection=yes .redistribute=connected,static,vpn,dhcp remote.address=103.235.x.x/32 .as=64101 .port=179 router-id=103.235.x.x routing-table=main templates=SAU \ use-bfd=yes
If I watch the BFD sessions, I'll see it show as 'dead',. and then disappear, then show as dead, then disappear..
Any thoughts? I've set this one to a 6 second hold timer, and halted
other upgrades for now. I've also reset the config and configured from scratch incase it was a v6>v7 upgrade issue, but still the same
my the problem..
Thankyou! --
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