I re-read your question properly again. The behavior that you see looks correct to me. OVS is a switch and switch's ports don't have mac addresses. It only cares about the mac addresses in the packet.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Pujar, Shyam (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) < shyam.pu...@nokia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > MAC addresses mentioned in the diagram are just for > example. > > MAC addresses used were as follows: > > > > Client Program: > > 52:54:00:00:01:02 > > > > Server Program: > > 52:56:11:80:80:41 > > > > TAP1: > > 52:F3:12:E4:6D:A9 > > > > TAP2: > > 72:17:32:32:15:F8 > > > > Regards, > > Shyam > > > > *From:* ext Gurucharan Shetty [mailto:shet...@nicira.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:48 PM > *To:* Pujar, Shyam (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) > *Cc:* b...@openvswitch.org > *Subject:* Re: [ovs-discuss] Flooding of packets destined to OVS port's > mac address > > > > I don't know the answer, but some of your mac addresses have multi-cast > bit enabled. So I wonder whether that is the problem. > > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Pujar, Shyam (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) < > shyam.pu...@nokia.com> wrote: > > Hi , > > Please find setup and testing procedure below. > > > > > > 1. In the above setup, Client Program tries to send packet with > src_mac: 3:3:3:3:3:3 and dst_mac: 1:1:1:1:1:1. > > 2. Packet is flood to port tap2. > > 3. Why does OVS flood packets when dst_mac received is its own > port’s mac address. > > 4. As it forwards to other ports, there is no one to reply for > dst_mac other than OVS bridge itself. > > 5. Where as in case of Linux bridge, packet is not flooded to other > ports. Instead packet is dropped. > > > > Could you please tell me how do switches in real work? As per my > understanding there should be static entries in forwarding table of switch > for its own mac addresses. > > And default action should be present for it. > > > > > > Regards, > > Shyam > > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > >
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