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.
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