Thanks for the reply. I'm not running discovery module. The idle time out is set for 5 secs and the hard timeout is set to 0(i.e. permanent). These are the parameters that are in the code by default. I have not changed anything.
Regards, Candy On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Kyriakos Zarifis <kyr.zari...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > are you running 'discovery' or any other application that has discovery as > a dependency? > If so, the packet_ins you see are most probably the control (LLDP) packets > sent by discovery to discover neighbors. > ( http://noxrepo.org/noxwiki/index.php/Discovery ) > > the flow expiration time is set from the controller, when you send the > flow_mods. The flow_mod includes arguments to set hard/idle timeout for the > entry. 'Idle timeout' means the entry will expire X seconds after no > matching traffic has hit the switch, 'hard timeout' means it will expire in > X seconds no matter what. > (Section 5.5.3 in > http://www.openflow.org/documents/openflow-spec-v1.0.0.pdf) > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Candy Floss <cndf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have copnnected NOX and two switches. Sometimes when I connect the >> switch to the NOX I see packet_in event in addition to datapath_join event. >> This is happening randomly. Not able to find a pattern when this eaxctly >> happens but it happens most of teh time. I'm not starting any flows but I >> still see packet_in event coming continously. What could be the reason? >> >> And also when I start the flow I see flow expired event on NOX in 1-2 >> secs. Where can I change the default timeout? Do I have to change in NOX or >> in openflow switch? >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> Candy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nox-dev mailing list >> nox-dev@noxrepo.org >> http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev >> >> >
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