neutron/releasenotes/notes/igmp-flood-f1b8aa5c799679ea.yaml
Lucas Alvares Gomes 114ca0f1be Fix IGMP inconsistency across drivers
Prior to this patch, ML2/OVS and ML2/OVN had inconsistent IGMP
configurations. Neutron only exposed one configuration option for IGMP:
igmp_snooping_enabled.

Other features such as IGMP flood, IGMP flood reports and IGMP flood
unregistered were hardcoded differently on each driver (see LP#2044272
for a more details).

These hardcoded values has led to many changes over the years tweaking
them to work on different scenarios but they were never final because
the fix for one case would break the other.

This patch introduces 3 new configuration options for these other IGMP
features that can be enabled or disabled on both backends. Operators
can now fine tune their deployments in the way that will work for them.

As a consequence of the hardcoded values for each driver we had to break
some defaults and, in the case of ML2/OVS, if operators want to keep
things as they were before this patch they will need to enable the new
mcast_flood and mcast_flood_unregistered configuration options.

That said, the for ML2/OVS there was also an inconsistency with the help
string of igmp_snooping_enabled configuration option as it mentioned
that enabling snooping would disable flooding to unregistered ports but
that was not true anymore after the fix [0].

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1884723

Closes-Bug: #2044272
Change-Id: Ic4dde46aa0ea2b03362329c87341c83b24d32176
Signed-off-by: Lucas Alvares Gomes <lucasagomes@gmail.com>
2023-12-15 09:05:19 +00:00

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prelude: >
The ML2/OVS and ML2/OVN drivers had inconsistencies on how IGMP was
configured. Prior to this patch Neutron only exposed a single IGMP
configuration option (``igmp_snooping_enabled``) and other features
such as flooding IGMP packets, flooding reports and flooding to
unregistered ports were hard coded differently in each driver.
This patch introduces Neutron configuration options for those listed
IGMP features.
As part of this work, default values in the IGMP snooping
configuration had to be changed for the ML2/OVS backend. Please
check in the following sections for more details.
features:
- |
New configuration options for IGMP were added in the [OVS] section:
``igmp_flood``, ``igmp_flood_reports`` and ``igmp_flood_unregistered``.
This gives operators full control on how IGMP should be configured for
their deployments.
upgrade:
- |
In order to make IGMP configuration consistent across drivers
some defaults had to be changed for ML2/OVS. This change did not
affect the defaults in the ML2/OVN driver.
If ML2/OVS is used and ``igmp_snooping_enable`` is enabled, in order
to make the IGMP related traffic run as before please ensure that
the following configuration options are enabled after the upgrade.
``[OVS]/igmp_flood_unregistered`` = True
``[OVS]/igmp_flood`` = True
``[OVS]/igmp_flood_reports`` = True