Dear OVN Community, We’ve observed that BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) health checks between OVS chassis are currently triggered only when an HA chassis group is configured. This behavior is expected in high-availability scenarios where active-standby gateways rely on BFD to detect failures and perform failover.
However, we have a use case where we would like to leverage BFD health checks between chassis purely for monitoring node health—regardless of whether HA chassis groups are in use. In our deployment, we need to detect chassis-level failures independently of any gateway HA configuration, and thus we would prefer that BFD health monitoring not be tightly coupled with the HA chassis group feature. Currently, this coupling limits our ability to use BFD as a general-purpose health detection mechanism. We’re wondering: 1. Does the community see this as a valid use case? 2. Are there any existing workarounds or plans to decouple BFD-based health checking from HA chassis groups? 3. If not, would such a feature be considered for future development? We’d appreciate any guidance, design insights, or feedback from the maintainers and community on whether this is something that could be supported or is already on the roadmap. Thank you for your time and contributions to OVN. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
