On Thu, 29 May 2014 17:27:16 +1000 Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There has been a number incidents recently where customers running KVM have > reported that VM hosts on different Hypervisors are unreachable. Based on > pcap traces we found that the bridge was broadcasting the ARP request out > onto the network. However some NICs have an inbuilt switch which on occasions > were broadcasting the VMs ARP request back through the physical NIC on the > Hypervisor. This resulted in the bridge changing ports and incorrectly learning > that the VMs mac address was external. As a result the ARP reply was directed > back onto the external network and VM never updated it's ARP cache. This patch > will notify the bridge command, after a fdb has been updated to identify such > port toggling. > > Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
