[ovs-discuss] How to make OVS to support LLDP protocol?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Apr 21 16:21:34 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 04:14:39PM +0800, 星言 墨虚 wrote:
> I setup Open vSwitch with NOX successfully. But there is one problem :
> I started my component of NOX include link_event, which uses LLDP protocol to monitor the stats of link. 
> NOX sends LLDP packet to vswitch and requests vswitch to output the packet to specified port.
> Now the problem is ovs cannot know the protocol and reply error packet to NOX.

I do not understand your explanation.  What makes you think "ovs cannot
know the protocol"?  What error does OVS send to NOX?



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