On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 01:35:28PM +0530, Babu Shanmugam wrote:
> > This patch attempts to avoid the usage of MAC_Binding table.
> >
> > Dynamic ARP response originates from the logical ports with "unknown"
> > address. When the ARP resolution is requested via a logical
> > router datapath, ARP response will be delivered to the logical router
> > port of the switch. Since the logical router is distributed, the
> > response will never reach the other chassis from where the ARP resolution
> > is requested.
> >
> > This is done using a OVN logical action bcast2lr() which adds an action
> > to send the packet to a specific multicast group for the logical router
> > datapath which will ultimately be broadcasted to all the other chassis.
>
> Thanks for the revised patch, and especially for the expanded
> explanation.
>

Thanks for the detailed review, Ben.

There will be some delay to getting back to revising this.  Babu is no
longer working with us, so someone else will be picking this up.

-- 
Russell Bryant
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