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Add some comments to the ovn-architecture document that distributed
gateway ports can also be made highly available.  Provide a brief
overview of the approach and point to the gateway HA design document
for a more detailed discussion of the approach taken.

Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Angel Ajo <majopela@redhat.com>
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logical patch port representing the distributed gateway port.
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<h3>High Availability for Distributed Gateway Ports</h3>

<p>
OVN allows you to specify a prioritized list of chassis for a distributed
gateway port. This is done by associating multiple
<code>Gateway_Chassis</code> rows with a <code>Logical_Router_Port</code>
in the <code>OVN_Northbound</code> database.
</p>

<p>
When multiple chassis have been specified for a gateway, all chassis that
may send packets to that gateway will enable BFD on tunnels to all
configured gateway chassis. The current master chassis for the gateway
is the highest priority gateway chassis that is currently viewed as
active based on BFD status.
</p>

<p>
For more information on L3 gateway high availability, please refer to
http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/high-availability.
</p>

<h2>Life Cycle of a VTEP gateway</h2>

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