> On Oct 17, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > Logical patch ports do not have a physical location and effectively reside > on every hypervisor. This is fine for unicast output to logical patch > ports. However, when a logical patch port is part of a logical multicast > group, lumping them together with the other "local" ports in a multicast > group yields packet duplication, because every hypervisor to which the > packet is tunneled re-outputs it to the logical patch port. > > This commit fixes the problem, by treating logical patch ports as remote > rather than local when they are part of a logical multicast group. This > yields exactly-once semantics. > > Found while testing implementation of ARP in OVN logical router. The > following commit adds a test that fails without this fix.
It's not actually the following patch, but the one after that. Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> --Justin _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
