BFD Model, Interface, and Client Support
The following firewall models do not support BFD: PA-800
Series, PA-220, and VM-50 firewalls. The models that do support
BFD support a maximum number of BFD sessions, as listed in the
Product Selection tool.
BFD runs on physical Ethernet, Aggregated Ethernet (AE), VLAN,
and tunnel interfaces (site-to-site VPN and LSVPN), and on Layer
3 subinterfaces.
Supported BFD clients are:
Static routes (IPv4 and IPv6) consisting of a single
hop
OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 (interface types include broadcast, point-to
point, and point-to-multipoint)
BGP IPv4 and IPv6 (IBGP, EBGP) consisting of a single hop
or multiple hops
RIP (single hop)
