BFD on Static Route between Fabric Engine and Alcatel

Configterminal — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:39:42 GMT

Reaching here but wondering if anyone has this setup:
My Switch - Universal 5520 48T Running Fabric Engine
Vendor Switch - Alcatel Omniswitch 6860
Goal - Enable BFD Session on a static route for sub second failover

The vendor is being unhelpful and claiming a compatibility issue although I'm not buying it as BFD is a standard not a proprietary protocol. I do the following 3 things on the Fabric Engine switch side:

Enable BFD Globally (router bfd enable)
Enabled BFD on the VLAN interface (ip bfd enable under interface context)
Enable BFD on the static route (ip route bfd x.x.x.x)

I see the Packet_Out counter incrementing when I run "show ip bfd stats" but nothing for the Packet_In counter.

Any ideas how I can prove this is the vendors issue and misconfiguration on their end? I also want to state that I've tested this thoroughly between two Fabric Engine switches and it works flawlessly.

It's tough for me to prove its an issue on their end without any visibility plus it seems like you can't mirror BFD packets to a SPAN port either. Is my only hope to put a FW in between to get extra visibility? Thoughts on this one?

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BFD on Static Route between Fabric Engine and Alcatel