On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:34:04AM +0200, Kristoffer Egefelt wrote:
> When a gratuitous arp is seen on a bridge, with action=normal, the FDB is 
> updated - 
> but with action=<customer_bridge>,LOCAL, or even the same ports as 
> action=normal would flood to, the FDB is not updated.
> 
> This all happens on a tunnel bridge, where the broadcast rule cannot have 
> action=normal, as it then re-floods the broadcast back through the tunnels.
> 
> So, is it possible to have a bridge acknowledge gratuitous arp without 
> action=normal ?

Only "normal" updates the builtin FDB.  If you need some other behavior
then you can build your own FDB using, for example, the structure
explaining in the tutorial that comes with OVS.
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