(In my previous message, ARM should have read ARP.)

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Alison Chan <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://gist.github.com/alis0nc/5639697#file-my_controller-py
> I've added a match for ARP and made sure of the prerequisite as per
> that other posting. I haven't seen a loop error since. Also, s7 and s8
> don't learn or flood anyway, they're handled in start_switch and the
> l2 learning method is in the 'else' clause.
>
> Pinging to a host on the same 'side' works now, and I've gotten rid of
> all the errors. But one side still can't talk to the other side. Am I
> doing ARM wrong?
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Murphy McCauley
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At least one of your problems is the same as was recently discussed in this 
>> post:
>> http://lists.noxrepo.org/pipermail/pox-dev-noxrepo.org/2013-May/000732.html
>>
>> It also looks like your topology has a loop but that sufficient measures are 
>> not taken to prevent packets from looping.  If your subnet splitting was 
>> working, this wouldn't be a loop for IP, but still would but for non-IP.  
>> This may be why you're getting a BUFFER_UNKNOWN area -- looped packets may 
>> be exhausting all the buffers.  You need to somehow modify your controller 
>> to prevent looping. One way might be to change the resend_packet to OFPP_ALL 
>> to use OFPP_FLOOD instead and then run the openflow.spanning_tree component. 
>>  You could also just modify it so that S7 and S8 use single-port output 
>> instead of flooding, never use one of the alternate paths, and don't do MAC 
>> learning.
>>
>> As a sidenote, you might want to take a look at the log module -- there's no 
>> need to tee into a file; the log module can be configured to just write a 
>> file for you.
>>
>> -- Murphy
>>
>> On May 23, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Alison Chan wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble designing my controller to split traffic by ip
>>> subnet. The relevant controller code, topology setup, and pox log file
>>> are in the linked gist:
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/alis0nc/5639697
>>>
>>> The topology and port assignnments look right as confirmed by 'net' in
>>> mininet. Here is what I'm doing:
>>>
>>> * start mininet by sudo mn --custom ~/mininet/custom/topo-ac.py
>>> --topo=mytopo --controller=remote,ip=127.0.0.1,port=6633 --mac
>>> * set up IP addresses on the nodes as follows:
>>>    * h1: 10.0.0.1
>>>    * h2: 10.0.0.129
>>>    * h3: 10.0.0.2
>>>    * h4: 10.0.0.130
>>> * start PoX by pox/pox.py misc.my_controller 2>&1 | tee -i poxlog.txt
>>> * mininet> h1 ping -c1 h2
>>> * destination host unreachable
>>> * wait about 5 seconds
>>> * the errors start coming and don't stop
>>>
>>> This is really my first OF controller past the tutorial so I apologise
>>> if I'm doing something really really stupid... But any assistance
>>> would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> Alison Chan
>>> Kettering University (2015): BSCS (Security concentration), BSCE, Pre-Law 
>>> minor
>>> Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science
>>> Secretary, Kettering University Allies, A-Section
>>> +1 909 278 7753
>>> [email protected]
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> Alison Chan
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> minor
> Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science
> Secretary, Kettering University Allies, A-Section
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Alison Chan
Kettering University (2015): BSCS (Security concentration), BSCE, Pre-Law minor
Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science
Secretary, Kettering University Allies, A-Section
+1 909 278 7753
[email protected]

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