On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Darrell Ball <dlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> These port types are skipped because ARP responder is not supposed to handle ARP requests that come from physical network. > > > There is a special case of the l2gateway where > a request comes from the physical network destined to a VM > somewhere; this is north->south traffic. This traffic hits a single > l2gateway inport and is associated with a logical switch. > There will be an arp responder on this source HV in gateway role. > Hence, there would be a single arp reply back out to the physical network. > Agree. So my "because ..." part was not accurate. > >> >> Otherwise, because all the chassises receiving the requests will reply, there will be redundant responses. > > > I got your point; let me roll in and elaborate a bit ? > > "These port types are skipped. Otherwise the arp > request is received by multiple hypervisors, which all have the > same mac binding downloaded from northd, which will cause > redundant arp replies, confusing the originator of the arp request. " > Sounds good to me. Acked-by: Han Zhou <zhou...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
