Would your per-VLAN flows have the same actions as the single flows you showed below? If so, the there is no benefit to per-VLAN flows.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 05:35:52PM -0500, Faisal Ali wrote: > Sorry for being unclear. The broadcast flow defined below was > originally applied to the bridge itself. > > Now I am adding vlans to the bridge, so my confusion is whether I > have to define (adding vlan tag) this flow per vlan or will this > flow definition suffice for all the vlans in the test bridge > > Thanks > > > > On Oct 23, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't know what you're trying to accomplish but "normal" understands > > and honors VLANs. > > > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:15:29PM -0500, Faisal Ali wrote: > >> Thank you Ben, > >> > >> If I have many vlans will this same flow work for all vlans in the test > >> bridge or do I have to define the flow per vlan > >> > >> ovs-ofctl add-flow test-br 'priority=1900 in_port=13 > >> dl_dst='ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff' actions='normal'' > >> ovs-ofctl add-flow test-br 'priority=1900 in_port=13 nw_dst='224.0.0.0/24' > >> actions='normal'' > >> > >>>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Faisal Ali wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I setup a GRE tunnel (connected to switchport 4) and put a noflood option > >>>> to prevent broadcast storms as below > >>>> > >>>> ovs-ofctl mod-port test-br 4 noflood > >>>> > >>>> But I need the broadcasts from VMs to be forwarded over the GRE tunnel > >>>> so I > >>>> put the following command > >>>> > >>>> ovs-ofctl add-flow test-br 'priority=1900 in_port=13 > >>>> dl_dst='ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff' actions='normal'' > >>>> ovs-ofctl add-flow test-br 'priority=1900 in_port=13 > >>>> nw_dst='224.0.0.0/24' > >>>> actions='normal'' > >>>> > >>>> However, I am not seeing broadcasts on the ovs bridge on the other end of > >>>> the gre tunnel. But if I remove the noflood option from GRE port 4, the > >>>> broadcasts is received. > >>> > >>> "normal" respects noflood. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
