[ovs-discuss] How OVS send original packet to different remote_ip ?

[Jesse Gross]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:15 AM, 張ふ渏 <303429515 at qq.com> wrote:
> Hi~
>     Recently, I use ovs to do something as following. I ceate a bridge and
> under it there some port whose type is vxlan.And these ports' remote_ip are
> different.Now when the original packets follow these vxlan port, the packets
> would be encaped,and can choose one to send out.My question is how ovs to
> send the original packet to the correct remote_ip?  Does ovs exist the
> mapping of MAC-IP?

It just uses normal L2 MAC learning to select a port and if it's a
tunnel port then the packet is encapsulated and sent to the associated
remote IP.