[ovs-discuss] Fwd: lldp support?

[Ben Pfaff]

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
> wondering if this is supported in the code of openvswitch . Is it possible
> to enable such a protocol in openvswitch code and force it send updates? I
> guess that using openlldp daemon could solve my problem, but I was wondering
> if this is supported by the code of the switch too.

OVS doesn't have built-in LLDP support.

> The second problem I noticed is that the nox packet send to the switch is
> not recognized by the switch. on every packet out message I see on the log
> of the ovs-vswitchd
> 
>  Jul 09 09:07:39|01304|dpif|WARN|system at br0: execute 1 failed (Invalid
> argument) on packet 00:04:23:b1:57:24 > 01:23:20:00:00:01, ethertype Unknown
> (0x88cc), length 34:
>         0x0000:  0207 0400 0423 b157 2404 0302 0001 0602  .....#.W$.......
>         0x0010:  0078 0000

That's a strange message.  What version of OVS are you using?