I'm not sure I understand the question. Depending on how you set up the flow table, you can either explicitly send LLDP packets to the controller or let them not hit any flow, which will send them to the controller. You don't need to set any capabilities.
--Justin On Feb 15, 2013, at 11:48 AM, vis reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Justin, > should the switch indicate something in the capabilities/features/some other > way when the session is established, if the controller can install a flow > with the destination mac of lldp mac > on the switch it would be good. Is this the way or if the switch directly > send the lldp packets will the controller accepts it? > Thanks > Vishnu > > From: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> > To: vis reddy <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013 6:25 PM > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] how to report the links > > As I mentioned, you could just send the LLDP packets to the controller > itself. If you wanted to process them locally, you could store the > information in the configuration database and have your controller get the > information using the OVSDB protocol. > > --Justin > > > On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:21 PM, vis reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Justin, > > How do we report a link connected to another switch, the switch has > > detected all the neighbors by lldp. How should i send this info to the > > controller. > > Thanks > > Vishnu > > > > From: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> > > To: vis reddy <[email protected]> > > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013 6:16 PM > > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] how to report the links > > > > There's nothing built into OVS that will do this for you. I've seen > > solutions like running LLDP in the end-host and sending those packets to > > the controller, or having the controller generate and handle probes itself. > > > > --Justin > > > > > > On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:02 PM, vis reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello All, > > > Could you please help to understand the following, > > > I am trying to figure out how to report the links to the controller, > > > for example the switch has a physical connection to another switch on > > > port P1 and a host on port P2 > > > how should i report this to the controller, i do not see any message of > > > this kinds. > > > This is required as the controller will know the topology based on this. > > > if there is already such a mechanism if some one point to the code it > > > will be very helpful. > > > Thanks lot > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
