[ovs-discuss] Get rid of immortal ARP

[Warsang]

Hello everyone, I am simulating a fat tree topology with ECMP. When one 
of my host sends an ARP request in broadcast, the packet is broadcasted 
through all switches which creates more and more traffic because I have 
no STP. My question is simple. What is the best way to get rid of these 
immortal packets? I thought of using something similar to a TTL header 
which would be decremented every time the packet hits a switch and 
dropped when it gets to zero however this method seems a bit too 
complicated to implement and I was wondering if there was a better, more 
simple way to do so using OVS?

Thank you in advance.
-Warsang

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