On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:56 AM, Taurus Cheung <taurus.che...@harmonicinc.com> 
wrote:

> As I know, Openvswitch is a L2 virtual switch that currently does not support 
> IGMP snooping/query.
>  
> We are running 2 VM (VM-A and VM-B) under same VLAN on the same host with 
> Openvswitch. Theoretically, if only VM-A has joined the multicast group, VM-B 
> can also receive this multicast traffic even VM-B has not join the group 
> (since there’s no IGMP snooping/query implementation in Openvswitch)
>  
> However in our experiment, VM-B would not receive the multicast traffic 
> joined by VM-A. The effect like Openvswitch has already supported IGMP 
> snooping/query. Is there anything we have missed?

You are correct that OVS doesn't support IGMP snooping.  The behavior you were 
expecting is the behavior I would have expected.

--Justin


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