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

[Chris Mantis]

I think as OVS support OVSDB, it can learn the remote MACs from the OVSDB
controller, but I guess this is not native support. If possible, can you
provide an outline of how this control path can be supported natively? Can
you elaborate what do you mean by "writing the flows"?

I am also looking for some overview of architecture of OVS. I found couple
of videos online, but they are quite old. Simon Horman (2012), Michael
Zayats (2015), Ben Pfaff (2013). Are there any meetup taking place for OVS?

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org> wrote:

>
> > 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
>
>
>
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