I don't know the answer, but some of your mac addresses have multi-cast bit enabled. So I wonder whether that is the problem.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Pujar, Shyam (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi , > Please find setup and testing procedure below. > > > > 1. In the above setup, Client Program tries to send packet with > src_mac: 3:3:3:3:3:3 and dst_mac: 1:1:1:1:1:1. > 2. Packet is flood to port tap2. > 3. Why does OVS flood packets when dst_mac received is its own port’s > mac address. > 4. As it forwards to other ports, there is no one to reply for dst_mac > other than OVS bridge itself. > 5. Where as in case of Linux bridge, packet is not flooded to other > ports. Instead packet is dropped. > > > Could you please tell me how do switches in real work? As per my > understanding there should be static entries in forwarding table of switch > for its own mac addresses. > And default action should be present for it. > > > Regards, > Shyam > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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