On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:37 PM, el05682 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:56:06 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, el05682 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanx for the quick reply. Got that, but I still haven't solved my
>>> problem
>>> though.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to group the packet flow without sacrificing the L2
>>> lookup?
>>> I think that the flows to multiple ports (i.e. ovs-ofctl add-flow br0
>>> in_port=3,actions=output:1,2)
>>> skip this lookup.
>>
>> If you're outputting to particular ports then what would L2 learning
>> do?  It determines the output ports but you've already specified them.
>>
> If I set a flow from port 1 to 2 and 3 then the packet will go to both
> destinations, something
> like a hub, but I want something smarter than that.

Well, it's not really acting like a hub.  It's simply doing exactly
what you tell it to do.

>
>> You can match on some fields and then do learning for only a set of
>> flows by outputting to the NORMAL action.  I'm not sure that achieves
>> what you are looking for though.
>
> This could be achieved by multiple actions on an flow rule or by
> resubmitting the packet?

NORMAL is a virtual OpenFlow port, so you just have to write an output
action to direct packets to it.
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