[ovs-discuss] "Normal" action

Luca Prete luca.prete at garr.it
Wed Apr 18 14:44:04 UTC 2012


Sorry but I didn't understand..What's happening? Do you have any idea to 
make it works?


Thanks,


LP

Il 18/04/2012 15:39, Ben Pfaff ha scritto:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 02:25:09PM +0200, Luca Prete wrote:
>>   ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 hard_timeout=0,idle_timeout=0,dl_dst=00:50:56:8a:14:13,dl_type=0x800,nw_proto=6,tp_dst=35000,action=mod_dl_src:00:50:56:8a:14:20,NORMAL
>>
>> 00:50:56:8a:14:13 is the MAC address of HOST02 and 00:50:56:8a:14:20
>> is the MAC address of host03.
>>
>> When I generate a particular packet from HOST01 that matches the
>> rules (ex with telnet google.it 35000) I expect to view a packet
>> arriving just to HOST03 (checking with tcpdump on HOST03).
>>
>> What happens is that packets arrive both to HOST02 and HOST03...It
>> seems that a FLOODING action is taken.
> All the packets come from one particular MAC address and are destined to
> a different MAC address, so OVS never learns the which port has the
> destination MAC, so all the packets get flooded.



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