On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 04:44:34PM +0800, Vinllen Chen wrote:
>     There is a problem about the arp while i am reading the openflow1.3 .
> Could anyone help me?
> 
> Where does the flow table handle the arp packet ? As i kown, the arp will
> go through the following flow table:
>     (1) ingress port table
>     (2) vlan table
>     (3) terminate mac flow table. The arp packet will miss the match in the
> mac table because no "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" mac in the mac table, so it'll go
> to the Bridging table.
>     (4) Bridging table. Also mismatch in the Bridging table. Goto acl table
>     (5) ACL table. The table will match the arp src mac and send packet_in
> message to controller, and the controller will send arp flood after receive
> arp from PACKET_IN.

It sounds like you're reading something other than the OpenFlow 1.3
spec, because the spec doesn't say anything about the tables you
mention.
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