BIDIRECTIONAL FORWARDING DETECTION OVER A VIRTUAL EXTENSIBLE LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

A system and method for detecting a communication status includes generating, at an originating virtual tunnel end point (VTEP), a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) data packet in accordance with VXLAN protocols. A bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) data packet is encapsulated in the VXLAN data packet to provide a VXLAN BFD data packet. The VXLAN BFD data packet is transmitted to a terminating VTEP to establish a BFD session over a VXLAN tunnel. A communication status of the VXLAN tunnel is determined for the BFD session based on a reply BFD data packet received from the terminating VTEP in accordance with a receiving time interval.