Hello folks:

Currently, we can build up a connection between two VxLAN networks by setting 
unicast ip address to the "remote_ip" option of VxLAN type interface on 
openvswitch.
But when there are many VxLAN networks, we hope to broadcast the VxLAN packet 
to all peers; but it is in-convenient to set all the unicast "remote_ip" 
parameters one-by-one. I have tried to set the "remote_ip" with a multicast 
group address, such as 224.0.0.2 or 225.1.1.1 using command:
sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br1 vx1 -- set interface vx1 type=vxlan 
options:remote_ip=225.1.1.1
The command does not return error, but ovs does not send the multicast VxLAN 
packet out as expected. And in log, I can find a warning "vx1: multicast 
remote_ip=225.1.1.1 not allowed".
Originally, VxLAN depends on multicast to find & resolve the Mapping(IP, MAC) 
among different VxLAN networks. So I think there might be some kind of 
configure to make use of the multicast characteristic of VxLAN.

Can you kindly offer me some help on it?
I would really appreciate your help.

Thanks!
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