[ovs-dev] Traffic Separation with OpenFlow

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Wed Jul 11 22:25:35 UTC 2012


It should be pretty straight-forward with the "ovs-ofctl add-flow" command.  There's a pretty extensive man page for the ovs-ofctl program.

--Justin


On Jul 11, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Anand Daga wrote:

> System:
> We have a VM 10.70.11.86 on a XENServer with OVS. The VM is connected to the OVS(xenbr0) on tap1.0 which is port 1 of OVS.
> Now we have 2 physical n/w interfaces namely eth0 & eth1 on OVS port 2 & 3 resp.
> 
> System diagram:
> <<VM 10.70.11.86 VM>> ---> tap1.0 <<OVS port 1=tap1.0, >>
>                                                       <<       port 2=eth0,     >>---->outside
>                                                       <<       port 3=eth1      >>---->outside
> 
> 
> Problem:
> How to direct traffic coming from VM's port 5001 to only eth1. All the other traffic should go to eth0. What flows should we insert to achieve this?
> Desired traffic separation:    from port 5001 ---> to eth1 
>                                          all traffic except from 5001 --> to eth0
> 
> Thanks,
> Anand
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