Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd and arp traffic

2012-05-30 Thread Haris Rotsos
On 30 May 2012 21:42, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:38:05PM +0100, Haris Rotsos wrote: > > I am writting to this list, because I notice a strange behaviour with > the > > ovs-vswitch distributed with the ubuntu/debian distribution. > > > > My confus

[ovs-discuss] ovs-vswitchd and arp traffic

2012-05-30 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hi all, I am writting to this list, because I notice a strange behaviour with the ovs-vswitch distributed with the ubuntu/debian distribution. My confusion/problem(?) lies on the way the ovs-vswitchd handles arptraffic. I initialize my switch as follows: ovsdb-server /etc/openvswitch/conf.db --

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: lldp support?

2011-07-09 Thread Haris Rotsos
On 9 July 2011 17:13, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:13:48AM +0100, Haris Rotsos wrote: > > Currently I am trying to use ovs with the topology module of nox in order > to > > use the lldp protocol to discover devices connected to the switch. I was > &

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: lldp support?

2011-07-09 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hello all, Currently I am trying to use ovs with the topology module of nox in order to use the lldp protocol to discover devices connected to the switch. I was wondering if this is supported in the code of openvswitch . Is it possible to enable such a protocol in openvswitch code and force it sen

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: matching filed on stats_request

2011-03-03 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hi everyone, I have a minor problem trying to implement a stats polling mechanism from an openflow controller. I am trying to get flow_stats and aggregate flow stats from an openvswitch instance. As an example fo the behaviour, I have installed the following flows in the flow table: cookie=0x0,

Re: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Haris Rotsos
nly a personal impression. On 16 December 2010 16:05, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Haris Rotsos wrote: >> I noticed using ovs-ofctl that openvswitch has 2 tables : hash with >> wildcard 0x00 and classifier with wildcard 0x3f. My >> understandi

[ovs-discuss] Fwd: question regarding openflow flow table

2010-12-16 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hello everybody, I am currently using openvswitch as an openflow switch and nox as the controller, within which which I am writting a test module in python. The module inserts a few exact match flows in the openflow switch. I noticed using ovs-ofctl that openvswitch has 2 tables : hash with wildc

Re: [ovs-discuss] openvswitch as openflow switch

2010-11-24 Thread Haris Rotsos
set up some flows for traffic to pass. > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:15:57PM +, Haris Rotsos wrote: >> no currently eth0 and eth1 have no ip. >> >> At the current point I am not interested to do switching between the 2 >> interfaces. I am only interested to reach th

[ovs-discuss] openvswitch as openflow switch

2010-11-24 Thread Haris Rotsos
Hello everybody, I have a question related to openvswitch and it's functionality as an openflow switch. I am currently setting up the switch as follows: insmod openvswitch/datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko insmod openvswitch/datapath/linux-2.6/brcompat_mod.ko #Start ovsdb server. The configu

[ovs-discuss] openflow packet_out and openvswitch

2010-11-07 Thread Haris Rotsos
I am currently using nox and openvswitch in order to write a simple dhcp plugin for nox. I am trying to generate dhcp packets on the controller and push them out throught the openvswitch to the network. the packet I send is (using -V option on tshark): Frame 1 (372 bytes on wire, 372 bytes capture