MikroTik

I would really like to see BFD enabled on static routes as well as on interfaces.

Here's the scenario:
dual L2TP tunnels on different WAN links.
tunnel1 loses connectivity, it takes as much as 60 seconds (default keepalive) to discover that it's down. tunnel2 is up but nothing is routed there until tunnel1 is deemed down.

solution, add OSPF and BFD on tunnel1. That's a lot of extra overhead and complication for this. Checking 'use BFD' on the L2TP tunnel would be the quick and easy solution. If that passed from client to server side even better, saves the config on the server side.

Alternatively, simply add this to static routes. I can bring both tunnels up with static addresses and add static routes at distance 1 and 2 to chose priority. Add BFD to tunnel 1 and it will detect the outage rapidly and switch routes to tunnel2.

This is a *BIG* deal for me and at least a few other people. It's made me move to a different platform to get access to BFD on static routes.

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I would also like to see bfd available for static routes.

dignome, apparently it's just you and I that wants think. I feel like mikrotik just doesn't care about any feature requests ever.

I don't think that is quite accurate. I'm sure we'll see it eventually just like udp support for openvpn eventually arrived in v7.

I guess if you need it now one must use another vendor (spend money elsewhere). Although I'd rather use a 'tik.

dignome and you're running v7 with openvpn udp support right now? just checking...

I've tested it personally and it appears to work. Of course we don't run alpha/beta code in production systems.

My point was that one of the most requested features did eventually make it into routeros.

So keep requesting the features you want people and perhaps we'll get them -- granted it could be 10 years down the line ;p