On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:35:33PM -0300, Glauco Gon?alves wrote:
> My problem is that the OVS boxes do not forward the LLDP packets generated
> by NOX. When I check the logs generated by ovs-vswitchd I got several
> messages like those:
> 
> ***
> Oct 10 17:14:38|27968|vconn|DBG|tcp:192.168.0.7:6633: received:
> OFPT_PACKET_OUT (xid=0x0): in_port=CONTROLLER actions_len=8 actions=output:1
> data_len=34
> 00:02:44:2e:71:b9 > 01:23:20:00:00:01, ethertype LLDP (0x88cc), length 34:
> (...)
> Oct 10 17:14:38|27972|dpif|WARN|system@br0: execute 1 failed (Invalid
> argument) on packet 00:02:44:2e:71:b9 > 01:23:20:00:00:01, ethertype LLDP
> (0x88cc), length 34:
> ***
> 
> The first message shows the LLDP packet sent by NOX in the OFPT_PACKET_OUT
> openflow message and the second is a strange warning. Which is the "Invalid
> argument" in the second message? Also, why the LLDP messages are discarded
> by OVS?

The kernel module doesn't know what to do with
in_port=OFPP_CONTROLLER.  Use OFPP_NONE instead.

(Nevertheless, OVS should validate this before it gets to the kernel
module.  I've filed an internal bug report to get this fixed.)
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