How about this?
bond: Sending learning packets on active-backup.
Suppose we have an active bond with two ports, eth1 and eth2,
attached to a standard L2 learning switch which does not know it's
participating in a bond (i.e. isn't running LACP). Suppose eth1 is
active and therefore the L2 learning switch is forwarding traffic
to eth1 as instructed by its learning table. Now suppose, for some
reason, OVS fails over from eth1 to eth2. For each destination
MAC, the L2 learning switch will continue sending traffic to eth1,
which will be dropped, until either traffic from that MAC appears
on eth2, or the learning table entries expire.
To alleviate this issue, this patch sends learning packets on newly
active interfaces in active-backup bonds in order to educate the
upstream network of the change.
Requested-by: Frido Roose <fr.ro...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com>
Ethan
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:51:30PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
>> When an active-backup bond fails over, it makes sense to update
>> upstream learning tables of the change so that traffic is forwarded
>> to the correct slave.
>>
>> Requested-by: Frido Roose <fr.ro...@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com>
>
> The patch looks fine but I'd really like a more spelled out rationale
> in the commit message. Otherwise a year from now when I read the
> commit I won't know why it makes sense.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
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