[ovs-dev] [PATCH] tunneling: Reduce priority of multicast tunnels.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue Nov 8 03:54:37 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 12:32:45PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> It's possible to have an incoming packet that matches both a unicast
>> and multicast tunnel if the source address corresponds to the remote_ip
>> of a unicast tunnel and the destination is multicast.  Currently this
>> will match the multicast tunnel but in reality the unicast tunnel
>> should probably be considered more specific.  This is actually a
>> common situation in protocols that use a combination of multicast
>> for flooding and unicast for responses.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Thanks, I pushed this.

> Should we have separate key_* counters for multicast tunnels?

It's probably worth doing.  I'll send out a separate patch.



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