On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:46:17AM -0800, Mickey Spiegel wrote:
> Currently in OVN, when a logical switch port of type "router" is
> created, the MAC and optionally IP addresses of the peer logical
> router port must be specified again as the addresses of the logical
> switch port.
>
> This patch allows the logical switch port's addresses to be
> specified as the string "router", rather than explicitly copying the
> logical router port's MAC and optionally IP addresses. The router
> addresses are used to populate the logical switch's destination
> lookup, and to populate op->lsp_addrs in ovn-northd.c, which in turn
> is used to generate logical switch ARP and ND replies. Since ipam
> already looks at logical router ports, the only ipam modification
> necessary is to skip logical switch ports with addresses "router".
>
> Signed-off-by: Mickey Spiegel <[email protected]>
I'd advise some documentation improvements, e.g.
diff --git a/ovn/ovn-nb.xml b/ovn/ovn-nb.xml
index f53fb9b..e52b29e 100644
--- a/ovn/ovn-nb.xml
+++ b/ovn/ovn-nb.xml
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@
<dt><code>router</code></dt>
<dd>
<p>
+ Accepted only when <ref column="type"/> is <code>router</code>.
This indicates that the Ethernet, IPv4, and IPv6 addresses for
this logical switch port should be obtained from the connected
logical router port, as specified by <code>router-port</code> in
@@ -533,6 +534,11 @@
switch's destination lookup, and also for the logical switch
to generate ARP and ND replies.
</p>
+
+ <p>
+ Supported only in OVN 2.7 and later. Earlier versions required
+ router addresses to be manually synchronized.
+ </p>
</dd>
</dl>
Otherwise,
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
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