Right, it only times out links if no LLDP is received. I was asking what was the reason for the warning messages above. Seems they are not related with discovery module.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:37 PM, kk yap <yap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guanyao, > > I am not sure what you are asking but discovery will not disconnected > switches. That can be said with certainty. > > Regards > KK > > 2009/12/23 Guanyao Huang <gyhu...@ucdavis.edu>: >> Some general questions: >> >> Will the datapath actively leave the network if it is burdened? Or >> only link_timeouts at discovery module will make them leave. >> >> My program has following messages: >> 00016|openflow|WARN:stream: send error: Broken pipe >> 00017|routingMR|ERR:Add flow entry to dp:f7cae4000064 failed with >> 32:Broken pipe. >> 00018|openflow|WARN:stream: receive error: Bad file descriptor >> 00019|nox|WARN:stream: disconnected (Bad file descriptor) >> Datapath leave, f7:ca:e4:00:00:64 >> >> What does "Broken pipe" usually imply? I cant find where it is from. >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Guanyao Huang <gyhu...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: >>> But I am now in UCdavis. I will start my intern next quarter.... >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Rob Sherwood <rob.sherw...@stanford.edu> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi Guanyao, >>>> >>>> I'm going to be in the lab today ... let's try to find some time to >>>> talk about this. >>>> >>>> - Rob >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Rob Sherwood <rob.sherw...@stanford.edu> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Martin Casado <cas...@nicira.com> wrote: >>>>>> I agree that if the problem is timeout due to loss from overload, then >>>>>> the >>>>>> only solution is prioritization. >>>>> >>>>> In general yes, but the current discovery algorithm is fairly brittle. >>>>> With a large number of ports (48) on a hardware switch, even a small >>>>> amount of packet loss it can falsely report down links. Part of the >>>>> goal of the rewrite is to address this issue. >>>>> >>>>>> Question for the slicing folks, does slicing extend to the control >>>>>> channel >>>>>> (packets set to the controller?) >>>>> >>>>> In addition to what Yiannis said (short story == "not yet"), Jean from >>>>> HP developed a "rate limiter" openflow action as a vendor extension >>>>> that can affect control and data traffic, so that could be used here. >>>>> I think this is a useful primitive and something I'm hoping will >>>>> making it into a future release of openflow (1.1?). >>>>> >>>>> - Rob >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nox-dev mailing list >> nox-dev@noxrepo.org >> http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org >> > _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list nox-dev@noxrepo.org http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org