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.
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