[openstack-dev] [neutron] DVR and l2_population

Armando M. armamig at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 18:13:01 UTC 2015


L2pop is a requirement.

With the existing agent-based architecture, L2pop is used to update the FDB
tables on the compute hosts to make east/west traffic possible whenever a
new port is created or existing one is updated.

Cheers,
Armando

On 10 February 2015 at 23:07, Itzik Brown <itzikb at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the Networking guide [1] there is a requirement for l2 population both
> as
> a mechanism driver and in OVS agent when enabling DVR.
> Is this is a requirement and if so what is the reason?
>
> Thanks,
> Itzik
>
>
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/networking-guide/content/ha-dvr.html
>
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