[ovs-dev] VEPA support in OVS

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Dec 3 05:08:47 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:18:43AM +0800, jerry wrote:
> It may be easily supported to forward unicast packets. But I'm not sure
> how to set OpenFlow rules when transferring multicast packets.
> It's described as follows:
> Firstly, multicast packets from VM1 will be sent out by up-link netdevice and
> be loop backed to up-link netdevice by physical switch.
> Secondly, we should avoid multicast packets being sent to VM1. Here we need
> to gather every VM MAC addresses and add rules for each VM.
> 
> Could you share with me some opinions on such problems?

Can you point me to a description of how this is done in a conventional
VEPA bridge implementation?



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