[ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd and arp traffic

2012-05-30 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hi all, I am writting to this list, because I notice a strange behaviour with the ovs-vswitch distributed with the ubuntu/debian distribution. My confusion/problem(?) lies on the way the ovs-vswitchd handles arptraffic. I initialize my switch as follows: ovsdb-server /etc/openvswitch/conf.db

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd and arp traffic

2012-05-30 Thread Haris Rotsos
On 30 May 2012 21:42, Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:38:05PM +0100, Haris Rotsos wrote: I am writting to this list, because I notice a strange behaviour with the ovs-vswitch distributed with the ubuntu/debian distribution. My confusion/problem(?) lies

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: lldp support?

2011-07-09 Thread Haris Rotsos
On 9 July 2011 17:13, Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:13:48AM +0100, Haris Rotsos wrote: Currently I am trying to use ovs with the topology module of nox in order to use the lldp protocol to discover devices connected to the switch. I was wondering

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: matching filed on stats_request

2011-03-03 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hi everyone, I have a minor problem trying to implement a stats polling mechanism from an openflow controller. I am trying to get flow_stats and aggregate flow stats from an openvswitch instance. As an example fo the behaviour, I have installed the following flows in the flow table: cookie=0x0,

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hello everybody, I am currently using openvswitch as an openflow switch and nox as the controller, within which which I am writting a test module in python. The module inserts a few exact match flows in the openflow switch. I noticed using ovs-ofctl that openvswitch has 2 tables : hash with

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Haris Rotsos
a personal impression. On 16 December 2010 16:05, Ben Pfaff b...@nicira.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Haris Rotsos cr...@cam.ac.uk wrote: I noticed using ovs-ofctl that openvswitch has 2 tables : hash with wildcard 0x00 and classifier with wildcard 0x3f. My understanding

[ovs-discuss] openvswitch as openflow switch

2010-11-24 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hello everybody, I have a question related to openvswitch and it's functionality as an openflow switch. I am currently setting up the switch as follows: insmod openvswitch/datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko insmod openvswitch/datapath/linux-2.6/brcompat_mod.ko #Start ovsdb server. The