Re: [openflow-discuss] Clarification about NORMAL and LOCAL action

2011-10-11 Thread Thapar, Vishal
Hi Dan, Thanks for the reply. It does clear up some confusion. The IP centric understanding of LOCAL action is what I inferred from an earlier thread: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/openflow-discuss/2011-April/002082.html I too feel that NORMAL is not that well defined in the spec, at le

[openflow-discuss] bug report: array access boundary error with FlowVisor

2011-10-11 Thread Masahiko Takahashi
Hi Rob and Nick, The following seems to be a problem with FlowVisor. In the spec, vendor extension such as OFPST_VENDOR and OFPAT_VENDOR is defined as 0x. However, FlowVisor has tables that doesn't assume 0x (or -1 in signed short). For example: static final Class convertStatsRequestMap

Re: [openflow-discuss] cannot find openflow wireless n-casting script - bicast

2011-10-11 Thread kk yap
Hi Oliver and Zhesen, I realized that the relevant NOX components was dropped due to server moving, pushing functionalities upstream, etc. My apologies for the slipup. I have updated the n-casting page. You can find the missing components in the tarball here (http://yuba.stanford.edu/openflow/d

Re: [openflow-discuss] Clarification about NORMAL and LOCAL action

2011-10-11 Thread Dan Talayco
(Sorry if you get this twice. Bad email source addr used.) While I might get some pushback (hopefully I will) for saying this, I would argue that NORMAL is not that well defined; at least, it is highly implementation dependent. LOCAL is pretty well defined since in all implementations there i

[openflow-discuss] Clarification about NORMAL and LOCAL action

2011-10-11 Thread Thapar, Vishal
Hi, I have some confusion regarding difference between LOCAL and NORMAL action. My [current] understanding is LOCAL refers to host's TCP/IP stack while NORMAL states "Process packets using traditional non-Openflow Pipeline of the switch". What I understand from it is that NORMAL action should o