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.
>
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