Hi Tom,

I can confirm that multicast works very well with Neutron ML2/OVS provider 
networks. See https://gist.github.com/djoreilly/a22ca4f38396e8867215fca0ad67fa28

I don’t know about OVN and multicast.

Regards,
Darragh.

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Verdaat
Sent: 08 September 2017 10:26
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ovs-discuss] Tenant multicast traffic on OpenStack with OVN

Hi all,
I've been looking into how we can enable multicast traffic for our OpenStack 
tenants. We once had this on an old OpenStack release that was using 
nova-networking and a flat network, but lost this when moving to a Neutron 
provider networking setup. Apparently - according to Cisco - it doesn't work 
with a regular Neutron ML2 + OVS setup due to what the neutron L3 agent does 
with namespaces and iptables.

In reply to an audience questions about it during the Boston OpenStack Summit 
talk on OVN somebody mentioned that OVS can handle multicast traffic just fine 
and that this means using OVN it could, potentially, also work for tenants. So 
with the new OpenStack Pike release, OVN active/passive HA support making it 
suitable for production and OVN doing away with all the Neutron agents 
(including the L3 agent?) things are looking up. Just wondering if anyone could 
tell me:

Would multicast work when using Neutron with OVN?

If so, would it work with provider networks, flat networking, or both?

Any insights into the state of multicast supoprt is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Tom
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