[ovs-discuss] Port satturation?

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue Oct 11 22:34:21 UTC 2011


2011/10/11 Vladimir Nikolić <vladimir.nikolic at amis.si>:
> Yes, there are occasionally arp records (showed by tcpdump on VM2), but
> there is 1000x more records for unicast traffic between VM1 and syslog
> server. I can see that traffic on VM2 (vif2.0) and xapi2 interface
> (tcpdump).

Yes, the problem is that the vast majority of the time the traffic is
unidirectional.  This means that the switch doesn't know where the
destination is and it floods.  This is simply how switches work,
nothing specific to Open vSwitch.



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