+Numan (fixed up his email address)

On 10/7/25 5:28 PM, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> On 10/7/25 5:17 PM, Martin Kennelly wrote:
>> Hi OVN team,
>>
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
>> I would like to request a backport of the following patch titled
>> "northd: Introduce disable_garp_rarp option for logical_router
>> table" [1] to the 25.09.z branch.
>>
> 
> Just in case there were small tweaks between what was on patchwork and
> what actually ended up on the main branch:
> 
> https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/commit/4ed3b96
> 
>> We are maintaining a network plugin - ovn-kubernetes. We utilize the
>> full OVN stack per host.
>> When our network plugin, which programs OVN is down/not reconciling, we
>> want to be able to suppress ovn-controller generated GARPs on its
>> startup, resulting from SNATs.
>> When our network plugin is down, we cannot be sure if the external IP
>> defined in the SNAT has moved to another node. 
>>
>> WIthout the aforementioned feature, we may GARP for an IP that isn't
>> "owned" by the current host.
>>
> 
> Given that the feature is opt-in (disabled by default) and relatively
> straightforward to backport and also knowing that the workaround
> required for this issue in ovn-kubernetes is complex, I'm OK with
> backporting this feature.  However, let's give other maintainers a few
> days to object if they have concerns.
> 
> Regards,
> Dumitru
> 
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Martin Kennelly (Red Hat) 
>>
>>
>> *[1] *https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/
>> patch/67a5c2813f77c67f6069a3766edaf28982e2f81a.1757022110.git.lorenzo.bianc...@redhat.com/
>>  
>> <https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/67a5c2813f77c67f6069a3766edaf28982e2f81a.1757022110.git.lorenzo.bianc...@redhat.com/>
>>
>>
>>

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