- Written by Kamlesh Raghuvanshi
- Posted on April 19, 2021
- Updated on August 20, 2024
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There are use cases where all broadcast, multicast and unknown MAC traffic are not needed to be flooded into the
- Written by Kaushik Kumar Ram
- Posted on March 3, 2023
- Updated on March 6, 2023
- 8757 Views
By default, when an SVI is configured on a VXLAN VLAN, then broadcast, unknown unicast, and unknown multicast (BUM) traffic received from the tunnel are punted to CPU. However, sending unknown unicast and unknown multicast traffic to CPU is unnecessary and could have negative side effects. Specifically, these packets take the L2Broadcast CoPP queue to the CPU.