[ovs-discuss] Is there any plan to support IP multicast required in RFC standard in OVS?

[Shi Xin Ruan]

Thanks Jesse.

In fact I need some deployment in production network.
But good news is that it's not the limitation of ovs, just nobody implement
it. Right?


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From:	Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org>
To:	Shi Xin Ruan/China/IBM at IBMCN
Cc:	discuss at openvswitch.org
Date:	12/11/2015 08:30 AM
Subject:	Re: [ovs-discuss] Is there any plan to support IP multicast
            required in RFC standard in OVS?



On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Shi Xin Ruan <Steve.ruan at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi OVS developers,
>
>
> I am trying to connect a OVS switch to physical hardware switch.
> Physical hardware switch support RFC standard VXLAN, it will use IP
> multicast group for broadcast packet.
> But OVS will receive IP multicast packet. So the connection can NOT be
> setup.
>
> Is there any plan to support IP multicast in OVS?

There's no objection to it but nobody has ever actually bothered to
implement it since people rarely deploy VXLAN this way in practice.


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