On 3/31/26 8:07 AM, Ales Musil wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 5:17 PM Dumitru Ceara via dev < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Add a new Documentation/topics/dynamic-routing/ section covering: >> - OVN's integration model with external routing daemons >> - Architecture diagrams for IP route exchange and EVPN >> - Deployment scenario diagrams for both IP routing and EVPN >> - IP route advertisement and learning mechanisms >> - VRF management >> - EVPN remote VTEP discovery, FDB/neighbor learning, and >> Advertised MAC Binding >> >> Reported-at: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/FDP-3118 >> Assisted-by: Claude, with model: claude-opus-4-6 >> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> >> --- >> > > Hi Dumitru, >
Hi Ales, > thank you for the patch, this is nice addition, I have just two small > comments down below. > Thanks for the review! > >> +Advertised MAC Binding >> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> + >> +The ``Advertised_MAC_Binding`` table in the Southbound database is >> +populated by ``ovn-northd`` for EVPN-enabled logical switches. It >> +contains the IP and MAC address pairs that should be announced to the >> +external network fabric. Each record includes: >> + >> +- ``datapath`` --- The logical switch this binding belongs to. >> +- ``logical_port`` --- The port binding this entry is associated with. >> +- ``ip`` --- The IP address to announce. >> +- ``mac`` --- The MAC address to announce. >> > > This is slightly incosistent, the "Advertised_Route" explanation is lacking > the column explanation. Maybe we should add that too WDYT? > Good point, I'll add that in v2. > + >> +``ovn-controller`` reads these records and installs the corresponding >> +static FDB and neighbor entries on the appropriate kernel interfaces, >> +making them available to the routing daemon for EVPN advertisement. >> + >> +EVPN Source IP Configuration >> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> + >> +The ``ovn-evpn-local-ip`` option in the ``Open_vSwitch`` table >> +``external_ids`` configures the source IP addresses used for EVPN VXLAN >> +tunnels. The format supports per-VNI IP assignment:: >> > > nit: Double colon. > Ack. Regards, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
