[ovs-discuss] Port satturation?

Vladimir Nikolić vladimir.nikolic at amis.si
Tue Oct 11 23:43:34 UTC 2011


The switch should learn syslog server mac address from the arp response,
and send traffic only to uplink.

Regards

On 12. 10. 2011 01:19, Jesse Gross wrote:
> 2011/10/11 Vladimir Nikolić <vladimir.nikolic at amis.si>:
>> VM1 does not know MAC address of syslog server. VM1 sends arp message to
>> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff requesting answer for 1.1.1.3 (syslog server ip).
>> Syslog server responds with its MAC address, VM1 insert an entry for
>> syslog server into its own ARP table for 1200 seconds. Until that time
>> expires, VM1 does not send broadcast message, it sends only syslog UDP
>> packets to syslog server MAC address. Switch should know that syslog
>> server MAC is not on its ports, and should not send that traffic to port
>> vif2.0 (xapi2).
> 
> And how do you think that the switch knows where to send traffic?
> 



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