BFD Protocol
This page provides information on the BFD Protocol detected by the Netify DPI engine. The protocol operates on 4 ports registered with the IANA. The port information is provided below.
Protocol Description
The BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) protocol is a lightweight, rapid failure detection mechanism used to monitor and verify the liveliness of network paths between two devices.
Please see the protocol catalog page for information on other protocols detected by Netify DPI.
Protocol Details
- ID
- 336
- Full Name
- Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
- Abbreviation
- BFD
- Category Tag
- networking
- Category
- Networking
- Home Page
- BFD
- Introduced
- Version 5.1.7
Protocol Ports - RFC
- TCP 3784
- BFD Control Protocol
- UDP 3784
- BFD Control Protocol
- TCP 3785
- BFD Echo Protocol
- UDP 3785
- BFD Echo Protocol
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