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Boden R 0a1405794f use service type constants from neutron_lib plugins 
The well known service type constants are in
neutron_lib.plugins.constants, but for legacy reasons a few still exist
and are referenced from neutron_lib.constants that we'd like to remove.
This patch switches references over to neutron_lib's plugin constants.

Change-Id: I1861448cec303725b30cef8f42029f467f9e03a3
 		2017-06-27 15:16:05 -06:00
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rpc_manager Removed deprecated class LocalVLANMapping 2016-11-07 20:24:06 +00:00
README Implement local ARP responder onto OVS agent 2014-05-19 21:42:11 +02:00
__init__.py Empty files should not contain copyright or license 2014-10-20 00:50:32 +00:00
db.py Remove deprecation warnings for l3_hamode_db 2016-10-10 10:36:56 -07:00
mech_driver.py use service type constants from neutron_lib plugins 2017-06-27 15:16:05 -06:00
rpc.py Get rid of marshall_fdb_entries 2016-02-03 00:16:45 -08:00

README 

Neutron ML2 l2 population Mechanism Drivers

l2 population (l2pop) mechanism drivers implements the ML2 driver to improve
open source plugins overlay implementations (VXLAN with Linux bridge and
GRE/VXLAN with OVS). This mechanism driver is implemented in ML2 to propagate
the forwarding information among agents using a common RPC API.

More informations could be found on the wiki page [1].

VXLAN Linux kernel:
-------------------
The VXLAN Linux kernel module provide all necessary functionalities to populate
the forwarding table and local ARP responder tables. This module appears on
release 3.7 of the vanilla Linux kernel in experimental:
- 3.8: first stable release, no edge replication (multicast necessary),
- 3.9: edge replication only for the broadcasted packets,
- 3.11: edge replication for broadcast, multicast and unknown packets.

Note: Some distributions (like RHEL) have backported this module on precedent
      kernel version.

OpenvSwitch:
------------
The OVS OpenFlow tables provide all of the necessary functionality to populate
the forwarding table and local ARP responder tables.
A wiki page describe how the flow tables did evolve on OVS agents:
- [2] without local ARP responder
- [3] with local ARP responder. /!\ This functionality is only available since
                                    the development branch 2.1. It's possible
                                    to disable (enable by default) it through
                                    the flag 'arp_responder'. /!\


Note: A difference persists between the LB and OVS agents when they are used
      with the l2-pop mechanism driver (and local ARP responder available). The
      LB agent will drop unknown unicast (VXLAN bridge mode), whereas the OVS
      agent will flood it.

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/L2population_blueprint
[2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ovs-flow-logic#OVS_flows_logic
[3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ovs-flow-logic#OVS_flows_logic_with_local_ARP_responder