On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:15:36PM -0700, Han Zhou wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> >
> > When a VM sends an ARP or an ND NS for its own IP address, it is trying to
> > check for a duplicate address in the network.  OVN needs to suppress the
> > reply in such a case, otherwise the VM thinks that its address is a
> > duplicate.
> >
> > Reported-by: Valentine Sinitsyn <valentine.sinit...@gmail.com>
> > Reported-at:
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-September/080037.html
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
>
> +1
> 
> It will also solve a problem when there are nested VMs (or network
> namespaces) within the source VM, connected to VM port by a bridge inside,
> sending ARP for the VM's IP, they would get duplicated responses.

Thanks for the review.

I'm hoping to hear from Valentine whether this fixes the originally
reported problem in practice.
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