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Performance Analysis of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) over the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Mohammad Mehdi Berrish, Mahmud Mansour, Ahmed Ben Hassan
Pages - 48 - 64     |    Revised - 30-11-2024     |    Published - 31-12-2024
Volume - 18   Issue - 4    |    Publication Date - December 2024  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
FHRP, HSRP, BFD.
ABSTRACT
Organizations are increasingly prioritizing network availability and minimizing downtime due to the growing demand for online applications and services. Maintaining high availability can be costly, but a lack can damage an organization's reputation and cause significant financial losses. To enhance IP network availability, the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a necessary protocol that is used to achieve this goal. HSRP is a redundancy protocol that is used to manage network default gateway routers by using one or more redundant routers that will take over in case of default router failure. However, late failure detections and slow responses can lead to packet loss during failure. Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is an effective solution to increase availability by rapidly detecting link failure and monitoring IP connectivity. This paper discusses how the integration of BFD with HSRP will enhance IP network availability and reduce downtime. The evaluation focuses on convergence time, packet loss, CPU utilization, and bandwidth consumption. Following the implementation, testing, optimization, and simulation using PNETLAB.We have verified that HSRP with BFD shows very fast failure detection and recovery with reduced downtime and packet loss, thus improving network reliability and stability.
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Professor Mohammad Mehdi Berrish
University of Tripoli - Libya
Professor Mahmud Mansour
Department of Network, University of Tripoli, Tripoli - Libya
Mr. Ahmed Ben Hassan
Department of Network, University of Tripoli, Tripoli - Libya
a.benhassan@uot.edu.ly


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