can you try using "flow.wildcards = openflow.OFPFW_ALL"

after making sure that nox.lib.openflow has been imported?



On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:37 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks!
> I have another question.
>
> Using the nox controller , I have inserted forwarding rules such that
> packets that match a particular (src_mac, dst_mac) pair  be sent out on a
> particular port.
> Since this is a wildcard entry, it also matches packets that belong to the
> null vlan as long as the (src_mac, dst_mac) pair matches.
>
> However, when I request for aggregate flow stats from the nox controller,
> it does not show any flows
>
> 00117|openflow-event|DBG:received stats reply from 00ffca7e3ad4
> Aggregate stats in from datapath 00.:ff:ca:7e:3a:d4
> {'packet_count': 0L, 'byte_count': 0L, 'flow_count': 0L}
>
> This is how I am requesting for aggregate flow stats
>  def aggregate_timer(self, dpid):
>         flow = ofp_match()
>         flow.wildcards = 0xffff
>         self.ctxt.send_aggregate_stats_request(dpid, flow,  0xff)
>         self.post_callback(MONITOR_TABLE_PERIOD, lambda :
> self.aggregate_timer(dpid))
>
> But running ovs-ofctl on the switch does show that there are flows in the
> forwarding table.
>
> Jan 02 11:25:34|00001|ofctl|INFO|connecting to
> unix://var/run/openvswitch/ful0.mgmt
> stats_reply (xid=0xe9c1a): flags=none type=2(aggregate)
>  packet_count=414 byte_count=42228 flow_count=2
>
> I am not sure why sending a request from the nox controller does not give
> the correct response. I don't know if that's a bug with the switch's
> implementation or nox or I am doing something wrong while requesting for
> stats.
> The following thread leads me to believe that I am missing something but I
> am not sure what.
>
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/openflow-spec/2010-February/000890.html
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> Thanks!
> Malveeka
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyriakos Zarifis" <[email protected]>
> To: "Murphy McCauley" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Malveeka Tewari" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:10:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [nox-dev] Getting individual flow stats for an python app
>
> Exactly - there's an example of using this in netapps/monitoring.py  (line
> 188) in destiny, (and you can trace how it's handled etc)
>
> If all you need is to print out/look at the flow stats (rather than act on
> them programatically), and you do switch to destiny, you could use the gui
> for that.
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I believe that the flow stats event is Pythonized in both the zaku and
>> destiny branches -- it's just that a helper method to make the callback easy
>> to register is missing from zaku.  A simple register_for_flow_stats_in
>> method DOES exist in the destiny branch, though.  So I'd suggest you either
>> switch to the destiny branch, or look at the relevant patch to destiny
>> (21e3bf59aca5d3df8e86bcd09cc9156a66866f7f) which should demonstrate how to
>> register a callback for flow stats events (it's not particularly hard --
>> basically you call register_handler with
>> Flow_stats_in_event.static_get_name() as the first parameter).
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> -- Murphy
>>
>> On Feb 21, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Malveeka Tewari wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am writing a python app for the NOX  controller and want to obtain flow
>> statistics for individual flows from an openflow switch.
>> I can see that nox supports python callback handlers for handling stats
>> reply for  aggregate flows stats, table stats , port stats and desc stats
>> events, but the handler for individual flow stat seems to be missing.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how can I extend the functionality to handle flow stats
>> event in a python nox app.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Malveeka
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