[ovs-dev] Implementation of Packet-Out in Bundles

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 12:59:20PM +0000, André Mantas wrote:
> After some more debugging and testing packet outs are being forwarded to
> both controllers and hosts when added to a bundle.
> I've tested with 2 controllers, 3 switches and 4 hosts with controllers
> sending packet outs to each other and pinging between hosts with pingall
> from mininet.
> How "good enough" is this from your perspective? I know I still need to
> write appropriate tests.

Seems OK to me.  We don't require testing with external OpenFlow
controllers, so this is more than expected.

> Then I tried grouping a PortMod and a PacketOut together in the same bundle
> to test how enabling or disabling a port affects PacketOut validations.
> However, I'm not being able to set a port to "up" from the controller. I
> can put it "down" with a PortMod config=1 mask=1. but when I try to send a
> PortMod with config=1 mask=0, the port stays down. In wireshark I see the
> config=1 and mask=0 but in ovs-ofctl snoop it says config:0 mask:0.
> I can set the port down with ovs-ofctl mod-port so maybe I'm doing
> something wrong?

You want config=0 mask=1, I believe.