The issue here—if I understand correctly—is that OpenFlow doesn't allow traffic 
to be forwarded out the same port in which it was received. To make this work, 
you'd have to receive traffic on eth0 and send it out eth1 (for example).

Happy to be corrected if I am mistaken.

-- 
Scott

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> On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Emma Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Can open vswitch acts like: receive a packet from eth0, substitute IP/mac, 
> and sends it back again on eth0?
> 
> I found that when a packet is received from eth0, although the flow is 
> triggered, it looks that packet is dropped silently and there is no trace in 
> logs (if I am looking at the right place). 
> 
> Flow works well when I redirect the packet to another vm on the "same" host.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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