On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 06:03:05PM +0530, Rahul Nanda wrote: > When I did ping between VM1 and VM2, the ARP packet came to OF controller > as PACKET_IN and controller has send PACKET_OUT message and added a unicast > flow with in-port and dl_dst to output:VM2 port. > > The ICMP echo req packet has come to VM2. > I expected the VM2 to send ICMP echo reply which would be a packet miss in > OVS as there is no associated flow. > > Instead VM2 also sent an ARP request for VM1 and I could see this in our OF > controller. > Can't VM2 just use the srcMAC in ICMP echo req instead of sending ARP again > ??
That's not what TCP/IP stacks do. I don't know the reason off-hand. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
