On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:53:48AM -0500, Mark Michelson wrote:
> When this flag is set, then a multicast packet that would normally be
> delivered to ports on multiple hypervisors is only delivered to ports
> on the local hypervisor.
> 
> The primary known use case for this is when multicast packets originate
> from ovn-controller. Multiple ovn-controllers will be attempting to send
> out those multicast packets, and so each should only be responsible for
> delivering those packets to their local ports.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]>

Thanks for working on this.

Would you mind updating the "Architectural Physical Life Cycle of a
Packet" section in ovn-architecture(7) to describe this behavior?

Thanks,

Ben.
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