[ovs-dev] I think I found a bug

[Romain Lenglet]

Hi,
I thought that accepting (or not) overlapping flows at the same priority was up to the controller?
Isn't that what the check_overlap flag is for in flow_mod messages?
-- 
Romain Lenglet

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 16:00, Justin Pettit wrote: 
> I would expect so. One use that people have brought in the past is that you could setup backup routes at a lower priority, with the higher ones timing out or being forcibly removed. I don't know how useful that actually is, but people have discussed doing that before with OpenFlow.
> 
> In general, Ben and I have been fairly negative in the OpenFlow discussions about putting in "sanity" checks at flow insertion time due to the complexity and expense of enforcing them. There was quite a lengthy discussion a year or so back about preventing users from being able to put overlapping flows at the same priority--we lost that one. :-)
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Derek Cormier wrote:
> 
> > I expected that since the flow with the lower priority will never be matched over the higher one, it has no purpose and would not be added.
> > 
> > Hmm, on second glance, the protocol says that if you add an identical flow that also has the same priority then the flow will just be replaced.
> > But, I don't think it says anything about this case. Sorry, I should have confirmed that before posting.
> > 
> > That said, do you think these identical flows should be allowed?
> > 
> > - Derek
> > 
> > On 02/22/2011 03:43 PM, Justin Pettit wrote:
> > > I would expect that you can. What did you expect? What did you see? It's not clear from this output if it's working or not, since neither counter shows a value. Are you running traffic?
> > > 
> > > --Justin
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Derek Cormier wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Should I be able to add two identical wildcarded flows with different priorities? I was talking with KK and he thinks this might be a bug. I always assumed this was just the way it works. Here is my ovs-ofctl flow dump:
> > > > 
> > > > cookie=0x0, duration=94.608s, table_id=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, priority=5,dl_type=0x0005 actions=drop
> > > > cookie=0x0, duration=98.109s, table_id=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, priority=1,dl_type=0x0005 actions=drop
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > - Derek
> > > > 
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