On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:16:43PM -0700, Sairam Venugopal wrote: > IPFIX templates and flow packets are silently dropped when a corresponding > ARP entry is missing for the Collector. The fix is to explicitly trigger an > ARP request before sending UDP packets to the collector. > > Making changes in Windows to maintain the destination IP address as part > of the Collector Structure. Since the SendARP is a blocking call, we do > not necessarily need to check for a response before sending the IPFIX > packets. Keeping the fix specific to Windows since this behavior cannot be > reproduced in Linux.
When you say that SendARP is a blocking call, do you mean that it sends a packet and then waits for a response? That will delay everything else happening in the OVS main thread for an arbitrary amount of time. Usually this is not acceptable. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
