Best way to detect failure in Metro ethernet networks

Hello ,
I am working for a well known provider and I am currently migrating one of my client from Frame-relay to Metro-ethernet link .
I am actually looking for advices on what sort of mechanism to implement to detect a failure in the ME parth .
As you probably know , failure on one of the links might cause the CE-SWITCH-PE interfaces to stay up/up and the network will not neceseraliy start converging .
So far I have implemented BFD along with IP SLA route tracking , I am happy with BFD but the IP SLA is acting "weird" .
- IP SLA ICMP tracking rely on ICMP packets and was too sensitive to packets lost
- We switched to ip route sla tracking but I am still unsure about the best way to use or implement this .
Is there some sort of best practices available somewhere for this ?
thanks ¨
T

Hello Thomas,
From what i have seen BFD is best bet as it allows to relax the L3 protocols timers ( BGP / any other protocol used between CE- PE ). Another option is to have gre tunnel between the PE - CE link and track this tunnel interface.
Regards,
Shreeram

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