On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Kyle Mestery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +Q: How much of the VXLAN protocol does Open vSwitch currently support? >> + >> +A: Open vSwitch currently supports the framing format for packets on the >> + wire. There is currently no support for the multicast aspects of VXLAN >> + when dealing with broadcast packets. To get around the lack of multicast >> + support, it is possible to pre-provision MAC to IP address mappings >> either >> + manually or from a controller. > > Multicast is used for more than just inner broadcast, right? For example, > isn't also used for unknown dest mac? If you agree, I think you can drop the > "when dealing with broadcast packets" part. > Thanks Justin, I'm fine with that, I'll send another version with this change. I'd like to get Jesse and Ben's comments on these as well and collect one last round and submit with all the feedback one more time.
Thanks, Kyle > --Justin > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
