On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:24:58PM -0700, Martin Casado wrote: > I think you have a basic misunderstanding of L2 learning. A > typical switch pipeline operates as follows (ignoring bcast/mcast): > > - packet enters switch > - lookup destination MAC in L2 table > - if match, send it out of port associated with MAC table > - If unknown, flood the packet (along the associated broadcast tree) > and learn its MAC (associate with the ingress port) > > This is done for all packets, not just broadcast.
...except that broadcast packets skip the "lookup destination MAC" step and always get flooded. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
