Thanks guys, looking forward to test this! Br, Frido
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> wrote: > Thanks, I merged this. > > Ethan > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >> Beautiful. >> >> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:30:55PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: >>> 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. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
