Sounds good. Ethan
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 15:06, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:58:29PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: >> > ? ?Bonding only accepts multicast (and broadcast) packets on a single >> > ? ?bond slave (the "active slave") at any given time. ?Multicast packets >> > ? ?received on other slaves are dropped. ?Otherwise, every multicast >> > ? ?packet would be duplicated, once for every bond slave, because the >> > ? ?physical switch attached to the bond will flood those packets. >> >> Ah wasn't aware of that. Looks Good then. > > Thanks. I remembered one more issue and added the following text to > cover it: > > 0. When the remote switch has not learned the MAC for the > destination of a unicast packet and hence floods the packet to > all of the links on the SLB bond, Open vSwitch will forward > duplicate packets, one per link, to each other switch port. > > Open vSwitch does not solve this problem. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
