Hi Srini,
Thanks very much, I will try. It's a good suggestion.
xiefeng

2010/12/29 Srini Seetharaman <[email protected]>

> I'm not sure if this is a problem of spanning_tree module. The ping
> may be stopped because the switch is holding onto flow table entries
> with invalid output action, and thereby not generating the packet_in
> to the controller (A pkt_in is needed for the routing module to send
> updated flow_mods with the valid output).
>
> The routing module depends on the topology module to get updated
> topology. This takes a long time because the link timeout value is
> high.
>
> Even if the topology changes, the routing module will not revoke
> existing invalid flow_mods. You will have to write the code for that.
> The routing module needs to listen for port status change messages to
> act immediately if there's a link failure. Please look at the
> following thread for more info on that:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01963.html
>
> Srini.
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:27 AM, 谢峰 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,all
> > The spanning_tree component can break the loop in the network, select the
> > shortest path for the flow.  But when I cut the shortest path, the ping
> > operation will stop, it represents that the nox doesn't
> > select another path for me. So, how solve this problem: if I want to
> change
> > a new route immediately when the current path is down?
> > thanks
> > regards
> > xiefeng
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