Comment 9 for bug 1513793

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

Reviewed: https://review.opencontrail.org/14975
Committed: http://github.org/Juniper/contrail-vrouter/commit/b9be67ef2e44c551d88a0ef5e875d4bbf165579b
Submitter: Zuul
Branch: master

commit b9be67ef2e44c551d88a0ef5e875d4bbf165579b
Author: Hari <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 9 14:18:50 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 Divakar's behalf.

Change-Id: Ib70e7c81ce6dcd2d5126fc43316ef9e0b6ef2592
closes-bug: #1513793