On 5 October 2016 at 10:44, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:56:15AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> > A Container running inside a VM can have a connection to the
> > hosting VM (parent port) in the logical topology (for e.g via a router).
> > So we should be able to loop-back into the same VM, even if the
> > final packet delivered does not have any tags in it.
> >
> > Reported-by: Dustin Spinhirne <dspinhi...@vmware.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org>
>
> It looks to me like, after this patch, we're effectively acting as if
> flags.allow_loopback is always set to 1.  Is that right?


You are right. It did not flash to me while making the code change that
table 65 is also used for logical to physical translation for patch ports.


>   If so, then we
> can simplify the code a bit.
>

I sent a V2 which I think reduces the scope of the change of v1 using the
flags.loopback flag. You probably had a better idea.
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