[ovs-dev] [patch_v6 1/3] ovn: Fix arping from vtep-gw physical port.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Mon Nov 28 19:04:30 UTC 2016


On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:06:16AM -0700, Darrell Ball wrote:
> from: Ramu Ramamurthy <ramu.ramamurthy at us.ibm.com>
> 
> Currently, arping from a vtep-gw physical-switch port to
> a VIF IP address does not work.
> 
> When a physical-switch-port arps for an IP address
> of a VIF, that arp packet comes into the VIF hypervisor via a
> vxlan tunnel. That arp packet must not be responded-to by the
> arp responder table because, potentially, multiple hypervisors
> could independently respond and confuse L2 learning at the
> arp originator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ramu Ramamurthy <ramu.ramamurthy at us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Darrell Ball <dlu998 at gmail.com>
> Co-authored-by: Darrell Ball <dlu998 at gmail.com>

Thanks Ramu and Darrell, I applied this to master and branch-2.6.


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