Comment 5 for bug 1513793

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OpenContrail Admin (ci-admin-f) wrote : A change has been merged

Reviewed: https://review.opencontrail.org/14955
Committed: http://github.org/Juniper/contrail-vrouter/commit/36ceb42cdc4e9020660de3fc3c475690c5849496
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: R2.20

commit 36ceb42cdc4e9020660de3fc3c475690c5849496
Author: Hari <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Nov 7 07:57:45 2015 +0530

Treat ARP pkt with zero source IP as Gratuitous ARP

As per RFC 5227, when ARP packet is received with zero source IP, this
needs to be treated as ARP PRobe. In Vrouter case, it should not be
treatd as regular ARP request and flooded to complete VN, so that VM/BMS
treats this like ARP probe and take appropriate action. Vrouter treating
this as ARP request results in senidng ARP response with stiched/Proxied
MAC.

Committing on behalf of Divakar.

Change-Id: Ia89e0d99b7b8895243e5707c8f67dc78265db8a9
closes-bug: #1513793