+Lucas Martins <lmart...@redhat.com> to this thread who's been working on
this particular area

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:44 PM Numan Siddique <num...@ovn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 4:27 AM Michał Nasiadka <mnasia...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I’m running OpenStack Wallaby and using Ironic for Bare Metal
> provisioning.
> > Neutron creates External ports for bare metal instances and uses
> ha_chassis_group.
> > Neutron normally defines a different priority for Routers LRP gateway
> chassis and ha_chassis_group.
> >
> > I have a router with two VLANs attached - external (used for internet
> connectivity - SNAT or DNAT/Floating IP) and internal VLAN network hosting
> bare metal servers (and some Geneve networks for VMs).
> >
> > If an External port’s HA chassis group active chassis is different than
> gateway chassis (external vlan network) active chassis - those bare metal
> servers have intermittent network connectivity for any traffic going
> through that router.
> >
> > Is that desired effect in OVN?
>
> I think it would cause some issues.  I'm not able to exactly recall
> why, but I've seen similar behavior and it is recommended that the
> same controller which is actively handling the gateway traffic also
> handles the external ports.  Maybe there is mac flapping of the router
> port ips.
> That could be the issue.  You can perhaps arp for the router ip from
> your bare metal machine and see if you get 2 arp replies - one from
> the controller which binds the external port and one from the gateway
> chassis controller.
>
> Thanks
> Numan
>
>
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Michal Nasiadka
> >
> >
> >
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