okay,I will give a try with OVS 1.1 version.

Thanks for help and support it was really helpful.

Anil

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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Thanks & Regards
--Anil Kumar Vishnoi
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