This is a problem caused because NOX uses only the 48 least significant bits of the datapathid, and in HP switches the datapathid of each VLAN differs only in the most significant bit. Jean (HP) might be able to provide a firmware to bypass this issue.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Niky Riga <nr...@bbn.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup a test but I am not sure the setup is valid. > What I want to do, is have multiple Vlans being controlled by the same > controller, so that we can switch packets between different Vlans. > > We have an HP switch. After creating the Vlans, we pointed each vlan > to the same controller. What I see in the controller is that the switch > registers for a specific Vlan, and when it tries to register again for a > different Vlan it uses the same dpid and thus unregister and registers for > the other Vlan(i.e. for a separate set of ports). Each switch, at any point > in time is registered for only one Vlan. > > Is this the intended behavior, or there is misconfiguration somewhere? > > It seems that it should be possible that the same controller, can control > different Vlans, somehow .... > > Thanks, > Niky Riga > > _______________________________________________ > 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
