August 2018
Beginner
462 pages
12h 36m
English
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L2 population
To enable support for the L2 population driver, the l2_population configuration option must be set to true. Update the l2_population configuration option in the [vxlan] section of the Open vSwitch agent configuration file accordingly on compute02, compute03, and snat01:
[agent] ... l2_population = true
An important feature of the L2 population driver is its ARP responder functionality, which avoids the broadcasting of ARP requests across the overlay network. Each compute node can proxy ARP requests from virtual machines and provide them with replies, all without traffic leaving the host.
To enable the ARP responder, update the following configuration option:
[agent] ... arp_responder = true
The default arp_responder configuration ...
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