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Bug 2213892 - OVS MAC tables on client OVS DPDK not updating correctly upon F5 virtual Load Balancers HA switchover
Summary: OVS MAC tables on client OVS DPDK not updating correctly upon F5 virtual Load...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openvswitch2.15
Version: RHEL 8.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Mike Pattrick
QA Contact: Zhiqiang Fang
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Reported: 2023-06-09 19:12 UTC by Francois Palin
Modified: 2024-08-26 14:32 UTC (History)
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Description Francois Palin 2023-06-09 19:12:15 UTC
Description of problem:
(somewhat similar to BZ 2182549, but this time using a lab setup instead of prod)

Customer has a setup that is using 2 x F5 Load Balancer instances in Active/Standby mode.

Compute 2 is hosting client VMs (from Ixia) to generate traffic directed at the vLBs.
Compute 3 is hosting vLB3 and Compute 4 is hosting vLB4.

The active vLB is owner of a "masquerade MAC". 
Upon switchover, the newly active vLB becomes owner of the masquerade MAC and issues a GARP to announce this change.
Masquerade MAC is an F5 proprietary mechanism which is somewhat the MAC equivalent of a virtual IP address (VIP).

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Force vLB switchover.


Actual results:
What is observed on compute 2 (hosting client app from Ixia):
 - using ovs-tcpdump, we see the GARP from newly active vLB is received by OVS DPDK.
 - OVS FDB table doesn't get updated.

What is observed on computes 3 and 4: 
 - the vLB that becomes active issues the GARP
 - FDB tables on both computes get updated with new masquerade MAC port info.


Expected results:
What is expected is that upon receiving the GARP, OVS FDB tables on all computes (2, 3, and 4) get updated.


Additional info:
RHOSP 16.2
compute 2: openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-126.el8fdp.x86_64
compute 3: openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-126.el8fdp.x86_64
compute 4: openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64

compute 2: dpdkbond1:  dpdk0 (ens3f0) and dpdk1 (ens3f1)  balance-tcp  lacp


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