Ontap support for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)?

[JonarJ]

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

[chamfer]

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.