By default, there's usually an entry that matches all packets with the action 
"normal". With that configuration, I would expect you to be able to ping the 
host unless there's some other configuration error. Did you modify that default 
rule?

--Justin


> On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:33 PM, "LIU, Kun" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, all,
>   In a Linux bridge case, if I assigned ip address(say 10.0.1.1) to the Linux 
> bridge, then I can ping this ip address from another host successfully, as 
> the physical host that run Linux bridge could handle the ICMP request. 
> However, I cannot get the same result in a ovs bridge case. I assigned ip 
> address(10.0.1.1) to the Open vSwitch bridge(openflow-controlled) in host A, 
> but when I ping this ip address, the logs showed that ovs bridge did not know 
> how to handle the ICMP request packets, because there is no flow-entry 
> matched. I don’t know what flow-entry should send, setting a output action 
> will just send the packets out of the host A. What should I do to make the 
> ovs bridge pass the ICMP packets to the host A? Thank you.
>  
>  
> Best Regards,
> Kun Liu
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