Why do we need it, whatever it is? VM unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic flow is detailed in my previous post: Tunnels in Openstack Neutron TL;DR: Agent OVS flow tables implement learning. That is, any unknown unicast destination (IE: MAC addre…
ARP – Why do we need it? In any environment, be it the physical data-center, your home, or a virtualization cloud, machines need to know the MAC, or physical network address, of the next hop. For example, let there be two machines connected directly…