> On Jul 18, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Hao Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm curious that why OVS forwarding also needs arp? I find if I add a flow > in flow table as "idle_timeout=0,ip,dst_scr=10.0.0.2,actions=output:2", the > packets can't be forwarded unless I also add the arp part: > "idle_timeout=0,arp,dst_scr=10.0.0.2,actions=output:2". For OVS, I think it > can work without the help of arp because it uses OF table which can match IP > part.
ARP isn't IP--it has a different Ethertype--so you have to tell OVS to forward it. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
