Admin state DOWN is shown when there are no active BFD sessions. Try looking in the EdgeRouter logs (**show log**) to see if there are any BFD related messages. You may need to alter the BFD interval if the session is timing out.

\-Ben

Hey there,

I've been having trouble setting up BFD on my Edgerouter PROs. I'm able to get it to work some of the time, but sometimes (and I can't tell what causes it) I see this:

    user@router:~$ show bfd
    BFD ID: 00      Start Time:Wed Dec 31 19:02:02 1969
    BFD Admin State: DOWN
    Number of Sessions:    0
    Slow Timer: 2000        Image type: MONOLITHIC
    Echo Mode: Enabled      BFD Notifications enabled
    Next Session Discriminator: 3719

"BFD Admin State: DOWN". I had some sessions up earlier (Admin State was UP), checked back later and Admin State was DOWN and my individual sessions were also down. Does anyone know why that happens? No config changes were made during this time.

Edgerouter BFD problem