On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:09:07AM +0530, Anil Vishnoi wrote: > > I suspect that your switch is going into "fail open" mode and > > forwarding each packet as a regular switch would. You should be able > > to see that in the logs. It would also be visible as an additional > > high-priority rule in the output of "ovs-appctl bridge/dump-flows > > dp0". > > > > Yes, i can see the verbose output of *openflowd* and it throws the > fail-safe error with "disconnected from controller" message. > > So we do need connectivity from controller?Because when we connect to > controller,it starts learning and it might put the high priority entries in > the flow table which > will get compared before my manual entry and that way my entries will be of > no use. > My knowledge is limited in this as of now,so at this point of time it looks > to me that we must connect to controller else switch will move to fail-safe > mode and it will start broadcasting the packets?
I believe that, with OVS 1.1, you could invoke ovs-openflowd with --fail=secure and "none" as the controller to do what you want. _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
