[ovs-discuss] (no subject)

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:55:44AM +0530, Prashant Chougule wrote:
> I have small set-up of n/w with ovs running machine running with 4
> ports,like gbe1,gbe2 and gbe3
> 
> gbe1 is bridge port and gbe2 and gbe3 are the ports under that, the n/w is
> isolated but without adding any flow in the flow table it will show me 1
> active flow after ping request,
> 
> NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4):
> 
> cookie=0x0, duration=3657.241s, table=0, n_packets=6652, n_bytes=754944,
> idle_age=0, priority=0 actions=NORMAL,
> 
> How ?

That's the default behavior.  If you want there to be no flows at all,
use secure mode.

> And in my n/w I have connected two hosts to gbe2 and gbe3 with some static
> I/p, I check with ping request with 6 pkts its working fine but if I check

"I/p"?  Do you mean IP addresses?

> the dump-ports it will show me pkts more than that on that particular port,
> it suppose to show 6 pkts in tx field and 6 pkts in rx field of other port.
> 
> ./ovs-ofctl dump-ports br0
> 
> OFPST_PORT reply (xid=0x2): 4 ports
> 
> port 3: rx pkts=8524, bytes=626619, drop=0, errs=0, frame=0, over=0, crc=0
> 
> tx pkts=3080, bytes=696653, drop=0, errs=0, coll=0 (gbe3)
> 
> port 2: rx pkts=1680, bytes=148306, drop=0, errs=0, frame=0, over=0, crc=0
> 
> tx pkts=6257, bytes=705885, drop=0, errs=0, coll=0 (gbe2)
> 
> what is that other pkts other than ICMP ?

We have no way to know.  These statistics are the same ones that
"ifconfig" reports.