Thank you so much Kyle for the quick response. I will surely check in the NVO3 group.
Best Regards, Sudhakar. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) <kmest...@cisco.com>wrote: > On Nov 7, 2012, at 7:01 AM, Sudhakar Gariganti < > sudhakar.gariga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Friends, > > > > I am trying to understand the VXLAN spec and stumbled on how > multicasting is being used in the communication of VMs across tenants. I > want to understand how this is being implemented > > in the current OVS- VXLAN implementation. > > > > I came across this link > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2011-October/012051.html dated > Oct'2011 in relation. The post says, multicast support was not implemented > by that time.I hope there would have been definitely some progress post > that. > > > > Can someone provide information or some clarification in this regard. > > > > Any kind of information is highly appreciated. > > > VXLAN is not in upstream OVS yet. I have been maintaining and updating the > patch referenced above at the github here: > > https://github.com/mestery/ovs-vxlan > > However, no multicast support is implemented there either. I am currently > working on getting the VXLAN patches upstream into OVS. Once that is > complete, we can then implement multicast learning in userspace. I should > note, however, that the VXLAN working group in the IETF is currently > evaluating methods other than multicast to handle broadcast traffic across > VXLAN. Checkout the NVO3 working group for more information on the plans > there. > > Thanks, > Kyle > > > > > Thanks, > > Sudhakar. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > discuss@openvswitch.org > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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