could you elaborate a little bit more how to make switches report lldp
speaking neighbors?
Do I need to change lldp_parse function or something else?

Thanks
-Mo



2014-04-01 0:39 GMT-05:00 FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>:

> On Tue,  1 Apr 2014 14:01:52 +0900 (JST)
> [email protected] (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
>
> >> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:32:01 -0500
> >> Dong Mo <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This works great for getting switch-to-switch addresses and topology.
> >>>
> >>> A follow up question is that what about get information about the
> hosts'
> >>> MAC address that is attached to the switch?
> >>>
> >>> Say host1-s1-s2-host2. Using the lldp, we can get info about s1--s2
> but not
> >>> host1-s1.
> >>>
> >>> Let's assume s1 is an ovs, is it possible to get attachment info by
> looking
> >>> at ovsdb or what is the best practice to do that?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure you can get such info from ovsdb. I think that you can do
> >> by catching the first packet from the host via packet_in.
> >
> > probably it's better to make topology.switches accept and report info
> > from lldp-speaking neighbours.
>
> Yeah. Sounds like nice.
>
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