On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:24:49AM +0300, Liran Schour wrote:
> Right now all MAC addresses are written in advance in the OVN DBs. I 
> wonder what will happen if a port with a known MAC address will be bridged 
> with several 'silent' MAC addresses that are not written in advance on the 
> DBs but are waiting to be discovered.
> Does ARP request will reach those 'silent' interfaces? Does OVN will learn 
> those new addresses?

You can mark a logical port as having "unknown" MAC addresses in this
case.  So far, OVN doesn't learn them; rather, packets destined for MAC
addresses that are not owned by any port will be broadcast to the ports
that have "unknown" MAC addresses.
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