On 10/23/26 6:21 PM, Rukomoinikova Aleksandra wrote:
> On 23.10.2026 13:52, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>> On 10/7/26 5:53 PM, Rosemarie O'Riorden via dev wrote:
>>> Hi Alexandra! This change makes sense to me. Here are some minor comments.
>> Hi Alexandra and Rosemarie,
>>
>> Thanks for the patch and review!
>>
>>> On 9/25/26 9:57 AM, Alexandra Rukomoinikova via dev wrote:
>>>> Mirroring of type "lport" was done after ingress port security and
>>>> before egress port security, so the mirror did not show the traffic
>>>> that was really present on the port.  For example, if a VM is
>>>> compromised and sends packets with a spoofed source MAC, port security
>>>> drops them and they never reach the mirror target, although this is
>>>> exactly the traffic one would want to see.
>>> An example could also be added for the egress case.
>>>
>> Alexandra, are you planning to send out a v2 with an amended commit
>> message as Rosemarie suggested here?
>>
>> Alternatively, if you share an amended commit message I can just mangle
>> the v1 myself when pushing the patch.  I had a quick look right now and
>> I think it's probably fine as is; there's only one minor conflict in the
>> NEWS file that I can take care of myself.
>>
>> Rosemarie, would that work for you too?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dumitru
> Hi Dumitru! I missed the comment regarding the egress case in the 
> description, and I assumed that the change related to the fix tag—which 
> Rosemarie mentioned—could easily be added by the maintainers during the 
> merge, so I didn’t take any action. I’ll submit a new version. Sorry 
> about that.

Hi Alexandra,

No worries, looking forward to the v2.

Regards,
Dumitru

>>>> Mirror the traffic as close to the interface as possible, so that the
>>>> mirror target sees what the port actually sends and receives.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Rukomoinikova <[email protected]>
>>> Since this is basically a fix for your previous patch which added lport
>>> mirroring, and thus decided the pipeline ordering, I think it would make
>>> sense to add the Fixes tag:
>>>
>>> Fixes: 2a2fe266d09c ("northd: Added support for port mirroring in OVN
>>> overlay.")
>>>
>>> Everything else below looks good to me, but I'm open to other input.
>>>

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