IIRC, OVS doesn't support multicast, if you really need such feature, try the vxlan implemented in mainline kernel. I didn't try myself, but google says mainline kernel supports that.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:41 PM, 朱宗敏(研七 福州) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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