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
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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