Romil, > We are using OVS as neutron plugin to use VLAN/ VXLAN. We found that OVS > does multiple unicast to send the ARP request instead of sending via > Multicast address. But by default Linux bridge supports Multicast. > Is there any reason behind why OVS doesn't support Multicast?
AFAIK, OVS lacks some aspects of VXLAN specification, mainly in multicast support, but they are planned. OVS developers welcomes any help in this area. I suggest you to ask on the OVS mailing list about it. Att Lucas Brasilino MSc Student @ Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) twitter: @lucas_brasilino 2013/10/22 Romil Gupta <romilgupt...@gmail.com>: > Hi All, > > We are using OVS as neutron plugin to use VLAN/ VXLAN. We found that OVS > does multiple unicast to send the ARP request instead of sending via > Multicast address. But by default Linux bridge supports Multicast. > > > Is there any reason behind why OVS doesn't support Multicast? > > > Thanks in Advance :) > > > Regards, > Romil > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
