Rick Donato

When BUM (Broadcast, Unknown unicast and Multicast) traffic is sent out from a VM, the source VTEP must replicate this traffic out to the other VTEPs via VXLAN encapsulation. NSX provides 3 modes of replication - Multicast, Unicast and Hybrid. Multicast Multicast replication utilizes L2 (IGMP) and L3 (PIM) multicast

Within this short article, we will look at the difference between local and directed broadcasts. Local Broadcast A local (link-local) broadcast (255.255.255.255) is performed within the broadcast domain. It is only local and never forwarded. Directed Broadcast A directed broadcast, on the other hand, is the broadcast