User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0 Build Identifier: When ovs-vswitchd process dies as a part of the pod upgrade (in openshift), any new connections to existing vports get a "No Route To Host" error. This causes a disruption of service during upgrades. The RFE is to request that as a part of ovs-vswitchd process dying, we implement logic to prevent flows to existing vports from being denied at L2. For instance, we could PUT all the ARP reply flows corresponding to existing vports into the fast path to give the semblance of connectivity. We can then rely on higher level protocols such as a "SYN retransmission" to give clients a way to retry. It is understood that this affects even existing flows in the fast path, i.e. for instance a TCP packet has a different flag set (say PSH/ACK) than what is in the fast path, without vswitchd to do conn-track, the connection may get dropped. Reproducible: Always