Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch looped topology without bonds/STP

2019-03-27 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2019-03-27 3:19 p.m., Colton Powell wrote: Anyways, I was thinking the same thing as you: It seems I will have to disable STP + the default forwarding rules, and then write flows to get ARP, etc. working as intended. I just wanted to see if there was some other, simpler solution that

[ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch looped topology without bonds/STP

2019-03-27 Thread Colton Powell
Hi again Ray, Thanks for the insight. I can definitely see the concern as far as the design of the network goes, and I definitely plan into looking into distributed/multiple controller solutions in the future! For now though, its ok. We are using this network as part of a research project and

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch looped topology without bonds/STP

2019-03-27 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2019-03-27 1:48 p.m., Colton Powell wrote: The difficult part for us, however, is actually finding the paths to redirect on. Because we are currently using STP in our looped topology, OpenDaylight cannot find all links/paths in the network. Only links on the Spanning Tree are found

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch looped topology without bonds/STP

2019-03-27 Thread Colton Powell
Hi Ray, Thanks for your response. We wish to write flows to OpenVSwitches in any given topology to redirect traffic in the network. In our case, we wish to redirect some traffic between machines if certain conditions are met (IE: there is sufficient bandwidth available on the links leading

Re: [ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch looped topology without bonds/STP

2019-03-27 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 2019-03-27 12:12 p.m., Colton Powell wrote: By default, having a looped topology causes issues with broadcast packets (such as ARP packets) being looped. I have read the Common Configuration Problems page, which says to use bonds or STP to solve this issue. A looped infrastructure is

[ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch looped topology without bonds/STP

2019-03-27 Thread Colton Powell
Hi all, I know that this could be just as easily asked on an OpenDaylight mailing list, but it specifically involves OpenVSwitch and was hoping someone here might be able to provide some insight. In short, I wish to have a OpenVSwitch topology which is looped, and want to use OpenDaylight to