[ovs-discuss] Strange behavior with paths longer than 5 hops.
Jesse Gross
jesse at nicira.com
Wed Jul 18 03:16:46 UTC 2012
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Vjekoslav Brajkovic
<balkan at cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> I can't reduce the number of hops. We're doing large scale emulations using
> topologies that are synthesised from the Rocketfuel dataset. Therefore, the
> design can't be more efficient.
You can arbitrarily subdivide things using flows.
> The example above was used only to explain the conditions under which this
> problem occurs.
>
> All broadcast traffic that we send is forwarded along the spanning tree, so
> I don't see any reason why the machine would crash.
I already told you: you will blow the kernel stack at some point.
Spanning tree has nothing to do with it.
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