[ovs-dev] [PATCH] INTERNALS: Describe SLB bonding.

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Fri Jul 22 21:58:29 UTC 2011


>    Bonding only accepts multicast (and broadcast) packets on a single
>    bond slave (the "active slave") at any given time.  Multicast packets
>    received on other slaves are dropped.  Otherwise, every multicast
>    packet would be duplicated, once for every bond slave, because the
>    physical switch attached to the bond will flood those packets.

Ah wasn't aware of that.  Looks Good then.

Ethan



More information about the dev mailing list