[ovs-dev] NDP for ipv6 in OVS 2.10.0

William Tu u9012063 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 16:08:59 UTC 2019


On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:06 AM Gregory Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/10/2019 7:02 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Hi Ben and others,
> >
> > I just want to know: does OVS 2.10 has support for IPv6 mac learning /
> > NDP, so that we can avoid the ipv6 broadcast storm in our cloud?
>
> OVS will switch/forward IPv6 NDP traffic generated by network stations
> with IPv6 enabled.
> Is there some other support you're wondering about?

I'm checking the lib/mac-learning.c and ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c
I think OVS only learns MAC-port mapping from ARP packet, not IPv6 ND.

William


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