On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM Han Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM Numan Siddique <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > +Numan (fixed up his email address)
> > >
> > > On 10/7/25 5:28 PM, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> > > > On 10/7/25 5:17 PM, Martin Kennelly wrote:
> > > >> Hi OVN team,
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Hi Martin,
> > > >
> > > >> I would like to request a backport of the following patch titled
> > > >> "northd: Introduce disable_garp_rarp option for logical_router
> > > >> table" [1] to the 25.09.z branch.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Just in case there were small tweaks between what was on patchwork
> and
> > > > what actually ended up on the main branch:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/4ed3b96
> > > >
> > > >> We are maintaining a network plugin - ovn-kubernetes. We utilize the
> > > >> full OVN stack per host.
> > > >> When our network plugin, which programs OVN is down/not
> reconciling, we
> > > >> want to be able to suppress ovn-controller generated GARPs on its
> > > >> startup, resulting from SNATs.
> > > >> When our network plugin is down, we cannot be sure if the external
> IP
> > > >> defined in the SNAT has moved to another node.
> > > >>
> > > >> WIthout the aforementioned feature, we may GARP for an IP that isn't
> > > >> "owned" by the current host.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Given that the feature is opt-in (disabled by default) and relatively
> > > > straightforward to backport and also knowing that the workaround
> > > > required for this issue in ovn-kubernetes is complex, I'm OK with
> > > > backporting this feature.  However, let's give other maintainers a
> few
> > > > days to object if they have concerns.
> >
> > No objections from me.
> >
> > Numan
> >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Dumitru
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Thank you,
> > > >>
> > > >> Martin Kennelly (Red Hat)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> *[1] *https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/
> > > >> patch/
> 67a5c2813f77c67f6069a3766edaf28982e2f81a.1757022110.git.lorenzo.bianc...@redhat.com/
> <
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/67a5c2813f77c67f6069a3766edaf28982e2f81a.1757022110.git.lorenzo.bianc...@redhat.com/
> >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > >
>
> No objections from me.
>
> Han
>

Thank you all,

based on the feedback above I went ahead and backported
https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/4ed3b96 into 25.09.

Regards,
Ales
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