On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 02:46:16AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> So far, we have had the ability to add a load-balancer to a switch.  This 
> works
> fine for east-west traffic.  It was assumed (and lightly tested) that it also
> works for north-south traffic by adding the load_balancer object to the 
> lswitch
> connected to the local network.
> 
> But, in more extensive testing, it was observed that this does not work
> when we add a SNAT rule to the gateway router. That rule is in a
> different zone and will intercept traffic heading out the logical
> topology without any knowledge about the load balancer rule added in a
> different zone.
> 
> This fix, lets us add the load_balancer to the gateway router too. It has the
> added benefit that it works fine with floating IPs for north-south traffic.
> i.e., floating ips can be load-balanced to logical ips.

Would it be useful to add this text to the commit messages?
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