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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Morin <thomas.morin at orange.com>
wrote:

> Hi Anil,
>
> Tue Feb 21 2017 22:47:46 GMT-0500 (EST), Anil Venkata:
>
>> Currently arp_resonder can enabled only if l2pop is enabled.
>>
>> Can we have arp_responder feature enabled without l2pop(i.e Remove the
>> dependency between arp_responder and l2_pop)?
>>
>>
> I agree that it would be useful.
> networking-bgpvpn ovs/bagpipe driver is relying on arp_responder, and
> hence currently draws this dependency on l2pop (not an issue I find, but
> still an artefact rather than a design decision).
>
> Also setup arp_responder on OVS integration bridge(and not on br-tun)?
>>
>>
> While relevant, I think this is not possible until br-int allows to match
> the network a packet belongs to (the ovsdb port tags don't let you do that
> until the packet leaves br-int with a NORMAL action).
> Ajo has told me yesterday that the OVS firewall driver uses registers
> precisely to do that. Making this generic (and not specific to the OVS
> firewall driver) would be a prerequisite before you can add ARP responder
> rules in br-int.
>
>
Thanks Thomas. Spoke to Ajo on this. He said we can follow above suggestion
i.e do the same what firewall driver is doing  in br-int, or wait till OVS
flow extension is implemented(but this will take time as lack of resources)


> I think this question (of where to put the ARP responder rules) also
> relates to https://review.openstack.org/#/c/320439/ .
>
> -Thomas
>
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