Sorry for being unclear. The broadcast flow defined below was originally applied to the bridge itself.
Now I am adding vlans to the bridge, so my confusion is whether I have to define (adding vlan tag) this flow per vlan or will this flow definition suffice for all the vlans in the test bridge Thanks > On Oct 23, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
