On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 03:41:14PM -0400, Mark Michelson wrote:
> OVN offers a method of IP address management that allows for an IPv4 subnet or
> IPv6 prefix to be specified on a logical switch. Then by specifying a
> switch port's address as "dynamic" or "<mac address> dynamic", OVN will
> automatically assign addresses to the switch port.
> 
> While this works great for initial assignment of addresses, addresses do
> not automatically adjust when changes are made to the switch's
> configuration. For instance:
> * If the subnet, ipv6_prefix, or exclude_ips for a logical switch
> changes, the affected switch ports are not updated.
> * If a switch port with a static IP address is added to the switch, and
> that address conflicts with a dynamically assigned IP address, the
> dynamic address is not updated.
> * If a MAC address switched from being statically assigned to
> dynamically assigned, the MAC address would not be updated.
> * If a statically assigned MAC address changed, then the IPv6 address
> would not be updated.

I spent some time looking this over and discovered some things that I'd
like to fix before it goes in:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=50436&state=*

Would you mind reviewing those?

Thanks,

Ben.
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