* Justin Pettit (jpet...@nicira.com) wrote: > On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmest...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > +Q: How much of the VXLAN protocol does Open vSwitch currently support? > > + > > +A: Open vSwitch currently supports the framing format for packets on the > > + wire. There is currently no support for the multicast aspects of VXLAN > > + when dealing with broadcast packets. To get around the lack of multicast > > + support, it is possible to pre-provision MAC to IP address mappings > > either > > + manually or from a controller. > > Multicast is used for more than just inner broadcast, right? For example, > isn't also used for unknown dest mac? If you agree, I think you can drop the > "when dealing with broadcast packets" part.
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