[ovs-discuss] Support for non-promiscuous mode on uplink NICs ?

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Walter Niklaus <NIKLAUS at de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the Network Adapters on my System don't support promiscuous mode:  they will
> discard all incoming packets containing unknown MAC-addresses.
> These Network Adapters require a "registration" of MAC-addresses in their
> fdb for the incoming traffic they should forward to the OS.
>
> I'm planning to use KVM as Hypervisor on my system and would be happy to use
> Open vSwitch as switching technology for my guests.
> Can you please help me understand if  Open vSwitch  has the capability of
> registering the  Guest MAC Addresses on the configured Host uplink NICs ?

No, it doesn't register MAC addresses.