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.

Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1325d3146b3c777dd554c17fdc37afb8e91744f1..047f34b9f40216f0c4bb0dd91b6d15f41ebe1f41 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/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