Hi Ben, thanks for the reply.

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 06:06:14PM +0200, Ricardo Schmidt wrote:
> > We couldn't find supporting material about the following problem on
> google.
> > Maybe some in the list is able to help us. We are using Ryu with OpenFlow
> > 1.3 and OVS 2.1.2.
> >
> > We are not really sure why we received the following message:
> > - error type: OFPET_PORT_MOD_FAILED
> > - error code: OFPPMFC_BAD_HW_ADDR
>
> In accordance with the OF1.3 spec, OVS sends this error if the hardware
> address in a port-mod message does not match the port's hardware
> address.
>

Actually, that's the part we don't understand. Are we supposed to send a
port-mod message? We don't send it. In the example codes we found, none of
them implement the port-mod message.


> > A second problem we observed as well, was that we were receiving the
> > following error message:
> > - error type: OFPET_TABLE_MOD_FAILED
> > - error code: OFPTMFC_BAD_CONFIG
> >
> > We do send flow stats request to the switch from time to time, but never
> a
> > table stats request.
>
> OVS only sends this error in response to a table-mod request.
>
> I would suggest using transaction ids to match the error messages you
> are receiving up with the requests you are sending.  Then you can tell
> exactly why OVS sends those errors.
>
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