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[ovs-dev] NEWS: Add recently added OVN IPv6 features

Message ID 20171103034316.31226-1-nusiddiq@redhat.com
State Accepted
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Series [ovs-dev] NEWS: Add recently added OVN IPv6 features | expand

Commit Message

Numan Siddique Nov. 3, 2017, 3:43 a.m. UTC 
From: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>

OVN now supports sending IPv6 RA packet in response to the RS packet
and resolves the unknown next hop MACs by generating a NS packet.

Mention this in the NEWS.

Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
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 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Ben Pfaff Nov. 3, 2017, 5:33 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:13:16AM +0530, nusiddiq@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
> 
> OVN now supports sending IPv6 RA packet in response to the RS packet
> and resolves the unknown next hop MACs by generating a NS packet.
> 
> Mention this in the NEWS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks!
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1325d3146..047f34b9f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@  Post-v2.8.0
    - OVN:
      * The "requested-chassis" option for a logical switch port now accepts a
        chassis "hostname" in addition to a chassis "name".
+     * IPv6
+       - Added support to send IPv6 Router Advertisement packets in response to
+         the IPv6 Router Solicitation packets from  the VIF ports.
+       - Added support to generate Neighbor Solicitation packets using the OVN
+         action 'nd_ns' to resolve unknown next hop MAC addresses for the
+         IPv6 packets.
    - Linux kernel 4.13
      * Add support for compiling OVS with the latest Linux 4.13 kernel