BFD Operational Commands

BFD Show Commands

The command displays the BFD session information.

show oam bfd session <option>

Option Description

session

Shows the session information.

detail

Shows detailed information about BFD sessions.

Example for static BFD session.

supervisor@rtbrick.net: cfg> show oam bfd session
Peer                           State      Transmit-interval(ms)  Receive-interval(ms)
12.0.4.2                       Up         1000                   1000
12:1:5::2                      Up         1000                   1000
fe80::7810:21                  Up         1000                   1000

Example for detailed view of static BFD session.

supervisor@rtbrick.net: cfg> show oam bfd session detail
Peer: 12.0.0.2, Local address: 12.0.0.1
  State: Up, Interface: ifl-0/0/0/0
    Local discriminator: 1000, Remote discriminator: 1000
      Transmit interval: 500ms, Receive interval: 500ms, Detect time multiplier: 3
      Hold interval: 3000ms
      Diagnostic code: No Diagnostic
      Last transition time: 2025-08-21T09:06:57.872803+0000, Flap count: 0
Peer: 12::2, Local address: 12::1
  State: Up, Interface: ifl-0/0/0/0
    Local discriminator: 1000, Remote discriminator: 1000
      Transmit interval: 500ms, Receive interval: 500ms, Detect time multiplier: 3
      Hold interval: 3000ms
      Diagnostic code: No Diagnostic
      Last transition time: 2025-08-21T09:06:56.664953+0000, Flap count: 0

Example of BFD for BGP sessions

supervisor@rtbrick.net: cfg> show bgp peer instance default
Instance: default
  Peer           Remote AS    State         Up/Down Time     PfxRcvd    PfxSent
  12.0.4.2       65000        Established   0d:00h:18m:26s    0           16
  12:0:5::2      65000        Established   0d:01h:05m:40s    0           16
  fe80::7810:21  65000        Established   0d:01h:14m:27s    0           16

Example for BFD for BGP sessions

supervisor@rtbrick.net: cfg> show oam bfd session
Peer                           State      Transmit-interval(ms)  Receive-interval(ms)
12.1.4.2                       Up         1000                   1000
12:1:5::2                      Up         1000                   1000
fe80::7810:21                  Up         1000                   1000