So is CFM used for detecting link failures?

> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:31:08 -0700
> From: b...@nicira.com
> To: dtala...@stanford.edu
> CC: openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu
> Subject: Re: [openflow-discuss] OFTest failure
> 
> I can't think of what you might be seeing.  OVS doesn't have a
> discovery protocol.
> 
> The L2 protocols that OVS itself implements are LACP, CFM, and STP,
> but all of them of them are disabled by default.  The administrator
> has to turn them on manually.
> 
> The Linux IPv6 stack does some kind of link-level negotiation
> automatically whenever a link comes up.  Maybe you're seeing that.
> But it's not part of OVS, and it should only send one packet or so
> immediately after a link comes up.
> 
> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:22:36AM -0700, Dan Talayco wrote:
> > But I believe I've seen some kind of discovery packets coming out of
> > OVS, right?  I was under the impression they even used the LLDP
> > reserved address, or something close to it.  Maybe LLDP-like?  :)
> > 
> > On Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:08:39AM -0700, Dan Talayco wrote:
> > > > OVS like many switches send out LLDPs periodically.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > No, OVS doesn't have any code for LLDP.
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