[ovs-discuss] how to fliter arp requests from being forwarded to the gre ports

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Aug 3 04:53:11 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:32:32PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote:
> I am trying to prevent arp requests(for a particular ip) from being
> forwarded on the gre ports. Is there a way to add a flow to do this?

There's not an obvious way to do this without a general-purpose
controller.

> I
> don't see anything explicit in ovs-ofctl to do this. Was wondering if it is
> possible. Conversely, it would help if there is a way to output arp
> requests on a set of ports(basically all except all the gre ports for my
> purposes). Right now, I see that the output action takes only one port to
> output the packet to.

You can use as many output actions as you like in a single flow.



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