@Ben - Thanks for the info, I'll take a look at the ARP traffic
@Justin - I was planning on doing RST for TCP and ICMP errors for
everything else based on a conversation I had with Russel. My
knowledge about if the same reject action can be done for TCP/UDP/ICMP
is a bit lacking. Whats you're recommendation here?

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@ovn.org> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:19:18AM -0500, Daniel Levy wrote:
>>> After some digging I've figured out where the code needs to go within
>>> OVN. Looking through the ofctl man page to understand how to set a
>>> flows action to return an RST packet, but I do not see the option.
>>> Asked on the OVS IRC and was told OVS currently does not support it,
>>> unless  the packet is forwarded to the controller and built manually
>>> as RST.
>>
>> Yes, that's right.
>>
>> The initial plan for implementing the OVN tcp_reset logical action is to
>> direct packets as needed to ovn-controller, the same way OVN handles
>> ARP.
>
> Daniel, are you planning to generate ICMP errors for UDP and ICMP rejected 
> packets?  It might be nice to create a generic reject OVN action that does 
> "the right thing" regardless of whether it's TCP, UDP, or ICMP.
>
> --Justin
>
>



-- 
Sincerely,
Daniel Levy
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