On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:39:29AM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote: > On 12/21/2015 09:55 AM, Numan Siddique wrote: > > On 12/21/2015 08:13 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: > >> On 12/21/2015 09:27 AM, Numan Siddique wrote: > >> What problem are you addressing here? It seems we would want the flows > >> created, even when the port is not up yet. Otherwise, when the port > >> does come up, ovn-controller has an incomplete logical flow table. I > >> think the logical flow table should be independent of port state and > >> location. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > > Presently when I create a port (neutron port-create) , i can get response > > to arping for the port ip, > > even if it is not bound to any VM. > > I thought of addressing this trivial problem. As soon as the port does come > > up, northd would > > add the necessary ARP reply logical flow. But I get your point now. > > Got it. Thanks for clarifying the issue. > > I wonder what the desired behavior should be here ... I'm tempted to > just say the existing behavior is OK. I wonder what others think.
It is surprising behavior to get an ARP response from a port that is not up. I think that it will confuse users and administrators trying to troubleshoot. I don't know the best way to handle this, but this seems like a reasonable place to start. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
