Hi Ethan, Thank you very much for your reply! I will take a look at ovs-vswitch.conf.db man page.
Thanks! Yimin On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Ethan Jackson <et...@nicira.com> wrote: > I'd have a look in the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page which documents > the tag and trunks options in the port table. With those, you > shouldn't need to mess around with OpenFlow at all. > > Ethan > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:44 PM, YIMIN CHEN <ymchen.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to set up 4 VMs on 2 HOSTs running openflow openvswitchs. >> >> >> HOST 1 HOST2 >> >> VM1 (vlan 1) VM4 (vlan1) >> VM2 (vlan 1) >> VM3 (vlan 2) >> >> The goal is to have VM1, VM2, and VM4 be able to talk to each other, >> but not VM3. VM ports are access mode, so VMs do not have VLAN >> knowledge. >> >> My question is how to setup openflow flows to achieve these. I can see >> the use of SET_VLAN_ID, OUTPUT, STRIP_VLAN_ID actions in this case, >> but couldn't figure out how FLOOD_ACTIONS can be used here. Do I need >> to configure STP in order to use FLOOD? Will openvswitch automatically >> learn which ports to flood in ARP broadcast case? Or I need explicitly >> specify which ports to forward for vlan1, etc? >> >> Thank you! >> Yimin >> _______________________________________________ >> openflow-discuss mailing list >> openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
