Srini,

I also added the changes you made to nox  that was in this patch you
sent, " [PATCH] Updating src MAC address of LLDPs to use actual hwaddr
reported by the feature_reply or port_change message. This also
insures that the LLDP src mac addr is not a multicast addr."

Aaron




On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Rob Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aaron:
>
> With the exception of HPs, most openflow switches make you manually
> configure your dpid as part of the OpenFlow setup.  Normally this is
> were the error occurs: that the person who set them up accidentally
> assigned two switches the same dpid.
>
> Ben's point is that nox actually (or at least used to) ignores the top
> two bytes of the dpid (for historical reasons), so it's possible that
> you don't have identical dpids, but dpids that only differ in the
> bytes that nox ignores.
>
> - Rob
> .
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Srini,
>>
>> I'm actually using destiny with last commit
>> 2ae77a972bb99f35ba3da397b98c2857f41c7f78 .
>>
>> Though I'm running with a patch that Murphy gave me to to handle an
>> LLDP  issue that I was having supposedly because  FV encodes large
>> DPIDs differently (though I'm not really to sure about the details
>> here).
>>
>> Murphy, do you think this is related to that patch I got from you a while 
>> ago?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Srini Seetharaman
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I believe NOX-Zaku still has issues in the discovery module with handling
>>> 64-bit DPID. That must be your issue. Maybe James can confirm.
>>> What is the commit tag of the NOX-zaku release you're using?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:02:36PM -0400, Aaron Rosen wrote:
>>>> > Also, is it possible for two hardware switches to have the same dpid ?
>>>> > (Assuming that the manufacture didn't make duplicates. The hp switch
>>>> > here is making the dpid (vlan + mac) I believe ) .
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like a familiar problem, is it the one here?
>>>>        http://noxrepo.org/pipermail/nox-dev/2010-June/006210.html
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>>
>>
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