[ovs-discuss] mac address table entries

[Justin Pettit]

Sorry, I can't think of any way to configure that.

--Justin


On May 3, 2012, at 12:50 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote:

> oh yes you're right. it's being forces to 15 seconds.  thank you.
> is there any option to disable mac aging time?
> 
> On 5/3/12, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>> Is it being forced to 15 seconds like the documentation says?
>> 
>> --Justin
>> 
>> 
>> On May 2, 2012, at 11:29 PM, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
>> 
>>> hi again
>>> congratulation for new release. as you said before, i run
>>> openvswitch1.4.1 to be able changing the mac aging time in mac address
>>> table but unfortunately i can't do it yet. like before i set the
>>> mac-age-time to 3 but age in mac table get value greater than 3.
>>> please let me know what i'm doing wrong.
>>> i use "ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 other_config:mac-aging-time=3" command.
>>> thank you so much
>>> motlagh
>>> 
>>> On 5/1/12, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry!  That configuration option is not available in 1.4.0.  It will be
>>>> in
>>>> 1.4.1, which will most likely be released tomorrow morning.
>>>> 
>>>> --Justin
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On May 1, 2012, at 1:11 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> thanks sergio and justin for your quick reply,
>>>>> 
>>>>> i execute the below command:
>>>>> "ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 other_config:mac-aging-time=3"
>>>>> then i execute "ovs-appctl fdb/show br0". in output table some ages
>>>>> are greater than 3.
>>>>> i thought when mac-aging-time is 3 it means that the age can not be
>>>>> more than 3. please let me know if i'm misunderstanding.
>>>>> thank you so much for your attention
>>>>> motlagh
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 4/30/12, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr 29, 2012, at 11:31 PM, saeedeh motlagh wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I need to insert some mac addresses to the learning mac address table
>>>>>>> as static entries. I want to know if there is such capability on
>>>>>>> Openvswitch 1.4?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> No, your best bet is to populate a flow table with the "ovs-ofctl
>>>>>> add-flow"
>>>>>> command.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I also want to change mac address aging time on the table, would it
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> possible to do that?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You can configure that with the "mac-aging-time" key in "other_config"
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> the Bridge table.  It's documented in the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man
>>>>>> page.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --Justin
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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