Hi, I've tested a multicast traffic between VMs which worked fine to me. The test made between two VMs running on different hosts, connected to the same switch.
The only pitfall i encountered was the firewall which blocked the traffic. Once disabled, I was able to complete the test (used iperf). Regards, Moti ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Wall" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 8:05:21 PM > Subject: [Users] Guest to guest multicast > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the VRRP protocol between two VMs, but the multicast > traffic never gets through. On the oVirt host I can see the VRRP > advertisements coming in for both VMs: > > aio:~# tcpdump -n -X -i vnet3 net 224.0.0.0/4 > listening on vnet3, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 > bytes > 18:58:31.841220 IP 10.1.2.3 > 224.0.0.18: VRRPv2, Advertisement, vrid 1, > prio 0, authtype none, intvl 1s, length 36 > > aio:~# tcpdump -n -X -i vnet8 net 224.0.0.0/4 > listening on vnet8, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 > bytes > 19:02:26.907054 IP 10.1.2.4 > 224.0.0.18: VRRPv2, Advertisement, vrid 1, > prio 100, authtype none, intvl 1s, length 36 > > > What is required to enable guest-to-guest multicast communication on an > oVirt node? > > > Thanks > - Frank > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

