Make arpresponder less aggressive, reply only for broadcast arp requests
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jumpojoy commented
Hello OVN community,
The arpresponder rules for targets do reply always when destination ethernet is unicast and broadcast. This does not allow to use arping as a technique to check peer/instance aliveness. For example in OpenStack arpresponder replies only to requests with broadcast destination ethernet address. This allows to use arping with unicast target ether address to check peer aliveness as arpresponder will not reply on such request. It would be great if we can apply the same workflow here.