Vanilla OpenStack networking has many functional, performance and scaling limitations. Projects like L2 population, local ARP responder, L2 Gateway and DVR were conceived to address those issues. However good a job these projects do, they still remain a collection of separate projects, each with its own limitations, configuration options and sets of dependencies. That led to an effort outside of OpenStack to develop a special-purpose OVS-only SDN controller that would address those issues in ...
