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Previously, when HA routers were scheduled to multiple nodes, each such replica of the router had its own copy of its internal and external ports, however, from neutron's perspective each such port was bound only to a single host. With HA routers, only one replica of the router is active at any point in time, but the router's ports may be bound to a host that is in standby mode.
As a result, l2pop used the port binding information to configure flows. Since the neutron port for replicated interfaces could be bound to the wrong host, l2pop may have broken connectivity by configuring tunnel endpoints to the wrong host, or by configuring unicast openflow rules that point to a standby node. Additionally, some ML2 mechanism drivers would rely on the port binding information to configure ToR switches or other network gear, which was being misconfigured.
With this update, whenever keepalived performs a state transition, it notifies the L3 agent, which then notifies the neutron-server. The server then updates the port's binding information to point to the new active node. As a result, l2pop and other ML2 mechanism drivers now have a correct view of the external environment, with router ports owned by HA routers always being bound to the active node.
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