On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 01:12:33PM -0300, Pedro Henrique wrote: > I'm using an openflow controller to poll the ovs each second, from this I'm > getting the flows passing through the switch ans other relevant information. > > I made a topology similiar to this. > > Host1 --- OVS1 ---- OVS2 ---- OVS3 ---- OVS4 --- OVS5 --- Host2 > > I'm generating traffic from Host1 to Host 2 using iperf and all hosts and > switches are generated by Mininet. > > I'm polling all the switches on the same time and I noticed that OVS1 > doesn't have more traffic passing through it than the OVS5 or any other > switches. This seems strange, since I'm polling the switch from the > beginning of the flow, so the traffic from OVS1 should be bigger than OVS2 > and OVS2 traffic > OVS3 traffic > OVS4 traffic > OVS5 traffic. But this > doesn't happen.
I don't understand why there should be more traffic on OVS1 than other switches. All of the traffic from Host1 to Host2 passes through all of the switches, right? So I'd expect each switch to report the same amount of traffic. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
