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. 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/> > > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
