On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Luiz Ozaki wrote: >> I attached two hosts on ETH1 and ETH2 and, also without using a controller >> acting as a L2 MAC-learning switch, they can ping one each other. >> >> How can this be possible? I thought a switch needed the controller to work >> properly as L2 MAC-switch ... >> So, trying to understand what was wrong, I typed >> - ovs-ofctl dump-tables br0 >> -ovs-ofctl dump-flows br0 > > On your dump-flows you should have something like: > cookie=0x0, duration=586260.781s, table=0, n_packets=20102186, > n_bytes=91142249326, priority=0 actions=NORMAL > > As the default, action NORMAL do the L2/L3 processing. So no need for a > controller. > > I think the L2 mac-learning using a controller is just an example of what you > can do with a controller. > > > OVS alone should work in most of the cases.
Yes, by default, OVS installs that rule. This default behavior can be configured with the fail-mode, as described in the ovs-vsctl and ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man pages. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
