topic Re: Ontap support for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)? in Network and Storage Protocols

Ontap support for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)?

JonarJ — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:23:32 GMT

Hi, do any of you know if Ontap supports the BFD Protocol?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidirectional_Forwarding_Detection

The documentation provided in the link below suggests using aggressive timers to detect fallouts but as far as I can tell the using BFD is a much more elegant solution to this problem.
https://www.netapp.com/media/79703-TR-4949.pdf

Thank you in advance for any feedback and comments on this.

- Jonar

Re: Ontap support for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)?

chamfer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:12:36 GMT

Hi @JonarJ ,

I would hazard a guess and say that ONTAP does not support BFD as they only just started to support MD5 authentication in ONTAP 9.16.1, which is yet to GA.

I would talk to your NetApp Sales team to raise a feature request via the Feature Product Variance Request (FPVR) process.

Re: Ontap support for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)?

JonarJ — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:53:38 GMT

Hi, thank you for the reply. That was my suspicion as well. Per your suggestion I have discussed this with out NetApp support contact and the reply he got was that this feature is on the roadmap but is not locked to any particular future release at this time. The release schedule is probably subject to demand.