[ovs-discuss] Error handling design change

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Jun 29 17:27:34 UTC 2012


Who are you?  Are you the same person as "sonny sonny"?  Is this the
same question or a different one?

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:39:22PM +0530, Amit Tewari wrote:
> hi,
> i wanted to display BAD_VERSION error from switch to controller..am working
> on error handling on my controller from switch. But why is switch behaving
> like this,
>  i also used openvswitch-1.2.2 there error packet header version from
> switch was 1 not 3 . what is this design change in 1.6 version
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:06:32PM +0530, sonny sonny wrote:
> > > Following is my setup on openvswitch 1.6.1
> > > controller - nox 0.9.0(zaku)
> > > Switch generates error packet for vendor message from controller, with
> > > header version as 1 in error packet , which is correct behaviour of
> > > switch.
> > > But when i change header version to 3 in vendor message on controller
> > > i recieve error packet with version 3 from switch and not  with
> > > version 1 which is strange behaviour on switch.
> > > I checked the code and i found that in error handling now error packet
> > > version is set to the request packet version.
> >
> > Why did you send a vendor message with an OpenFlow version other than
> > the negotiated version?
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Amit Tewari
> 
> Software Engineer
> 
> 
> 
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