On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 21:11, David Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also is there a document that specifies OVSs behavior in in-band
> environments such as XS with one ethernet port?  I would expect after the
> controller is connected that all packets coming in/out other than the
> controller connection (and possibly ARPs towards the controller ip/gateway?)
> should flow through the flowtable/controller, but maybe my expectation is
> incorrect.
>

They do flow through the flowtable, but via flows that the controller has no
access to (lest it break them and you lose your control channel).  You can
see these flows using:

ovs-appctl "bridge/dump-flows"

Also, the In-Band Control section of the DESIGN doc is generally very
informative:

http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob;f=DESIGN;h=2e3fced8067e681bf6f87877694d6c48ee3c3043;hb=b6e001b699d9affb558278ec90950f9960fe1826

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Nick
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