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You mention both 10.0.2.2 and 10.0.1.2.  Which is it?  Did you use the right 
one when testing?

Also, can you explain exactly how you configured and started up Mininet?

-- Murphy

On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Rashmi Pujar wrote:

> I am a newbie to Openflow and I have been using the Openflow tutorial and the 
> VM image that comes along to get myself started....and hence continued to use 
> NOX
> 
> To monitor the OF traffic between the controller and switch I used Wireshary 
> and the last OF traffic i saw was a OFP+ICMP Packet-In for H1--->H4 from 
> Switch3 port to Controller Port..
> For ARP requests sent from hosts to switches, I build an ARP reply to be sent 
> to the host. I can see OFP+ARP packet-in and out in Wireshark.
> 
> I did try to execute a ping on the same network topology H1 (10.0.1.2)---> 
> H4(10.0.2.2) using the simple L3 switch in POX, however I could only see ARP 
> requests from H1 to S2. I don't see the reply being sent. I am not sure where 
> I am going wrong..
> 
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:2 1 flooding ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:3 1 ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:3 1 flooding ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:2 1 ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:2 1 flooding ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:3 1 ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:3 1 flooding ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:2 1 ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:2 1 flooding ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:3 1 ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> DEBUG:forwarding.l3_learning:3 1 flooding ARP request 10.0.1.2 => 10.0.1.1
> 
> - Rashmi
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Do you have a good reason for using NOX-Classic?  As we're no longer doing 
> any development with it, you might think about using POX (which already 
> contains a simple L3 switch).
> 
> To more directly answer your question, you can use Wireshark to monitor the 
> OpenFlow traffic between the controller and the switch.  The OpenFlow 
> reference implementation contains the OpenFlow dissector, and there's also a 
> github project for it.
> 
> What are you doing about non-IP traffic? More to the point, what are you 
> doing about ARP?
> 
> -- Murphy
> 
> On Jul 19, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Rashmi Pujar wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to implement a static L3 Switch using NOX in Python. I have 
> > hardcoded the IPs and hence I do not perform any 'IP learning' as such.
> > My network topology looks as below.
> >
> >       Switch2<---------->Switch3
> >       |                       |
> >       |                       |
> >       H1                      H4
> >
> > When Host1 tries to ping H4 i.e. an ICMP req to H4. The controller ensures 
> > the destination mac address in this request is that of H4's; installs a 
> > flow in Switch2 and forwards the packet to the next hop i.e. Switch3. At 
> > Switch3 the arriving ICMP req has no flow entry and hence is sent to 
> > controller. The controller again checks against its IP table and installs a 
> > flow in Switch3 to finally forward the packet to the host at H4. I can see 
> > in my logs that a flow entry is being made for action on an appropriate 
> > port connecting to H4. However, I am expecting an ICMP echo reply from H4 
> > to complete the ping process and I do not see that happenening...Is there a 
> > way to debug this, to actually see if an OF packet has been sent to the 
> > host at H4? Am I expected to handle ICMP requests?
> >
> > It would be great if you could help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rashmi
> >
> 
> 

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