Are you absolutely sure you're not flooding broadcasts (e.g. ARP requests)?
On Dec 12, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Salman Malik <salma...@live.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a mininet topology with a loop in it. With this topology I am running > a single controller(POX) which is programming switches as simple L2 switches. > Flowvisor is configure to have a single flowspace that receives packet from > only on one DPID and it's in_port=<SinglePort>,dl_src=<SingleMAC> . This > in_port and MAC correspond to a host connected at this port connected with > the switch. When I send a ping from this host, I see a broadcast storm. > > My question is : If I have only one rule in flowspace that controls a given > DPID (and more specifically only one of its port that receives a certain > MAC), then shouldn't the next switch in the loop just drop the packet ? If > yes, then what is going wrong in this case ? > > Thanks, > Salman > _______________________________________________ > openflow-discuss mailing list > openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
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