[ovs-discuss] How does OVS learns the remote MACs

[Justin Pettit]

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 11:49 PM, Chris Mantis <chrismantis73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In case of VxLAN configuration on OVS, how does it learn the remote MACs? 
> 
> The local macs are typically learned when a data packet is sent out over an interface, How does it learn the remote MAC?

OVS supports VxLAN as a tunnel encapsulation, but doesn't natively support the control path.  I don't think it would be that difficult to write flows that implement the control path in OVS, though.

--Justin