On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:46:51PM +0200, Matthias May wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew
> We are using the 88E6321.
> In our setup we are using openvswitch and not a bridge, however the problem
> you describe seems to be the same.
>
> We had to configure the switch to flood unknown multicast (Egress Floods =
> 0x3, bits 3:2, offset 0x4 in port control)
> and
> unset FloodBC (FloodBC = 0x0, bit 12, offset 0x5 in global 2) which defines
> if a broadcast should be considered as
> multicast for the above config.
Hi Matthias
I might look at this.
But architecturally it seems better to add an mdb entry for the
broadcast address. I hope that work across all switches, where as what
you suggests only works for Marvell devices.
Andrew
