On 2013/12/3 13:08, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:18:43AM +0800, jerry wrote: >> It may be easily supported to forward unicast packets. But I'm not sure >> how to set OpenFlow rules when transferring multicast packets. >> It's described as follows: >> Firstly, multicast packets from VM1 will be sent out by up-link netdevice and >> be loop backed to up-link netdevice by physical switch. >> Secondly, we should avoid multicast packets being sent to VM1. Here we need >> to gather every VM MAC addresses and add rules for each VM. >> >> Could you share with me some opinions on such problems? > > Can you point me to a description of how this is done in a conventional > VEPA bridge implementation? > Hi Ben
Now MACVLan in Linux kernel has implemented VEPA. You can read related codes or the patch as follows: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2009-November/014409.html Regards Jerry > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
