Yes, thats what is happening. Sorry for the long mail... I just figure what should be at the end of the mail.
Unwanted packets received by the VMs seems not a good idea... On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > I only read your original message quickly, but if I understand it > properly, it sounds to me like OVS is behaving in more or less the same > way as a Ethernet switch would ordinarily behave. If I understand your > setup, initially you have a VM with a particular MAC address on some > host. Then you shut down that VM, so there is now nothing on the > network with the MAC address in question. OVS quickly sees that it > hasn't had any packets from that MAC address on any port, so it starts > flooding packets that are directed to that MAC to all ports. It will > continue to do that until the VM reappears. (But eventually the hosts > or VMs sending packets to that MAC will realize that they haven't had > any responses in a while, time out that MAC, and fall back to ARPing for > it, which effectively rate-limits the traffic.) > > Does that sound reasonable? > -- []'s Luiz Henrique Ozaki
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