NEWS: Add recently added OVN IPv6 features
OVN now supports sending IPv6 RA packet in response to the RS packet
and resolves the unknown next hop MACs by generating a NS packet.
Mention this in the NEWS.
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ Post-v2.8.0
- OVN:
* The "requested-chassis" option for a logical switch port now accepts a
chassis "hostname" in addition to a chassis "name".
+ * IPv6
+ - Added support to send IPv6 Router Advertisement packets in response to
+ the IPv6 Router Solicitation packets from the VIF ports.
+ - Added support to generate Neighbor Solicitation packets using the OVN
+ action 'nd_ns' to resolve unknown next hop MAC addresses for the
+ IPv6 packets.
- Linux kernel 4.13
* Add support for compiling OVS with the latest Linux 4.13 kernel
