diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manpages/bfd-options.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manpages/bfd-options.rst | 35 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manpages/bfd-options.rst b/doc/manpages/bfd-options.rst index e335ed120b..3f10916207 100644 --- a/doc/manpages/bfd-options.rst +++ b/doc/manpages/bfd-options.rst @@ -1,10 +1,33 @@ -BFD SOCKET ----------- +BFD +--- -The following option controls the BFD daemon control socket location. +The following options controls the BFD daemon auxiliary sockets. -.. option:: --bfdctl bfd-control-socket +.. option:: --dplaneaddr <type>:<address>[<:port>] - Opens the BFD daemon control socket located at the pointed location. + Configure the distributed BFD data plane listening socket bind address. - (default: |INSTALL_PREFIX_STATE|/bfdd.sock) + One would expect the data plane to run in the same machine as FRR, so + the suggested configuration would be: + + ``--dplaneaddr unix:/var/run/frr/bfdd_dplane.sock`` + + Or using IPv4: + + ``--dplaneaddr ipv4:127.0.0.1`` + + Or using IPv6: + + ``--dplaneaddr ipv6:[::1]`` + + It is also possible to specify a port (for IPv4/IPv6 only): + + ``--dplaneaddr ipv6:[::1]:50701`` + + (if omitted the default port is ``50700``). + + It is also possible to operate in client mode (instead of listening for + connections). To connect to a data plane server append the letter 'c' to + the protocol, example: + + ``--dplaneaddr ipv4c:127.0.0.1`` |