Link failure affects output to bonds, certain other OpenFlow actions such as "bundle", and output to "fast failover" groups.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:08:19AM +0530, Padma Jayasankar wrote: > Thanks for the information. > As i am new to openvswitch, coudn't understand the use of link failure > detection. If it is not related with flow table,then what is the purpose of > it? > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:42:56AM +0530, Padma Jayasankar wrote: > > > 1. Is bond_detect_mode defaulted to carrier in Openvswitch.(am using > > > openvswitch 2.1.0) > > > > This is documented in ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5). Search for "carrier". > > > > > 2. When this is set to carrier if a switch has two entries for the same > > > destination(with different priorities) in its flow table and the link > > > corresponding to higher priority flow table entry fails, how the switch > > > will behave. > > > -will it use the second entry automatically.(without controller's > > > intervention) > > > -what will happen to the higher priority entry..will it be kept there > > > - Will it send a message to the controller abt the link failure. > > > > Link failure doesn't affect flow table searches. > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
