On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:18:10PM +0000, Nitin Katiyar wrote:
> Fortville NICs (or their drivers) can get into an inconsistent state,
> in which the NIC can actually transmit and receive packets even
> though they report "PHY down". In such a state, OVS can exchange and
> process LACP messages and enable a LACP slave. However, further packet
> exchange over the slave fails because OVS sees that the PHY is down.
> 
> This commit fixes the problem by making OVS ignore received LACP PDUs
> and suppress transmitting LACP PDUs when carrier is down. In addition,
> when a LACP PDU is received with carrier down, this commit triggers
> rechecking the carrier status (by incrementing the connectivity sequence
> number) to ensure that it is updated as quickly as possible.

Thanks, applied to master.
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