On 12/17/24 5:14 PM, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> On 12/17/24 5:02 PM, Felix Huettner wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 04:41:44PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>>> Thank you for the review and conflict resolution Dumitru. Your changes
>>> look good for my part (register reassignment and system tests).
>>>
> Thanks for checking!
> 
>>> Martin.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 16:25 +0100, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
>>>> Hi Martin, Felix,
>>>>
>>>> On 12/4/24 4:10 PM, Martin Kalcok wrote:
>>>>> From: Felix Huettner <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>> In most cases IPv4 packets are routed only over other IPv4 networks
>>>>> and
>>>>> IPv6 packets are routed only over IPv6 networks. However there is
>>>>> no
>>>>> inherent reason for this limitation. Routing IPv4 packets over IPv6
>>>>> networks just requires the router to contain a route for an IPv4
>>>>> network
>>>>> with an IPv6 nexthop.
>>>>>
>>>>> This was previously prevented in OVN in ovn-nbctl and northd. By
>>>>> removing these filters the forwarding will work if the mac
>>>>> addresses are
>>>>> prepopulated.
>>>>>
>>>>> If the mac addresses are not prepopulated we will attempt to
>>>>> resolve them using
>>>>> the original address family of the packet and not the address
>>>>> family of the
>>>>> nexthop. This will fail and we will not forward the packet.
>>>>>
>>>>> This feature can for example be used by service providers to
>>>>> interconnect multiple IPv4 networks of a customer without needing
>>>>> to
>>>>> negotiate free IPv4 addresses by just using any IPv6 address.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Felix Huettner <[email protected]>
>>>> Felix, is this email address correct?
>> Hi Dumitru,
>>
>> we have since switched our mail domain, so now it is
>> [email protected]
>> However the old one will work for the next years so we can also keep
>> this one.
>>
> Ack.
> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kalcok <[email protected]>
>>>>> Co-authored-by: Martin Kalcok <[email protected]>
>>>>> ---
>>>> After merging Felix's BGP prerequisite patches, there were a bunch of
>>>> conflicts when applying this patch but I think I managed to address
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> I pushed the rebased patches (also with the small nits I had below
>>>> addressed) to:
>>>> https://github.com/dceara/ovn/commits/bcba1b74
>>>>
>>>> It would be great if you could double check that it still looks OK to
>>>> you.  If that's the case I can then apply the series to main.
>> All of the 3 commits look good from my side.
>> Thanks a lot for going through the conflict hell.

Applied to main, thanks!


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