What else is on the list of known issues?  Could this be added to the web
site docs?

Thanks,
Brandon

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Natasha Gude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hey Glen,
>
> This is a known issue - right now, broadcast and multicast packets are
> naively flooded out all ports except the ingress one.  At some point
> we'll be using spanning tree to fix this, although I'm not positive
> what the timeline is.  I'll get back to you on that.
>
> Natasha
>
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Glen Gibb wrote:
>
> > Here's a dump of the messages to the NOX controller showing the loop
> > happening.
> >
> > Glen
> >
> >
> >
> > Glen Gibb wrote:
> >> Just pyrouting and pyauthenticator
> >>
> >> Glen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Junda Liu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Which apps are you running on nox?
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Junda
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Glen Gibb wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> We have a setup here of three OpenFlow switches in a ring: mvm-
> >>>> ofroot,
> >>>> mvm-of1 and mvm-of2
> >>>>
> >>>> It seems that NOX doesn't do any type of spanning tree when
> >>>> flooding
> >>>> packets. I have an arp packet coming in to ofroot from the
> >>>> "outside".
> >>>> ofroot then seems to flood to of1 and of2. These switches then
> >>>> dutifully
> >>>> try flooding the packet themselves. We end up with ARPs floating
> >>>> around
> >>>> in a loop :-(
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you guys aware of this issue? Is there a planned fix for this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Glen
> >>>>
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