[ovs-discuss] How to turn off mac-learning on specific port

Baohua Yang yangbaohua at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 05:19:06 UTC 2013


Hi Ben
     Thank for your reply!
     That rule will flood the flow to all other ports, right?
     How can it affect the mac-learning on that port?
     Could you please explain a little more or give some reference?
     Thanks!


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:46:32PM +0800, Baohua Yang wrote:
> >      I know that ovsd has a built-in mac-learning switch, and it is
> > necessary to support the "NORMAL" action.
> >     Now I want to stop the mac-learning on a given port, but other ports
> > should work normally.
> >     How to implement this? I check the ovs manual, but find no solution.
>
> A flow like
>         in_port=123,actions=flood
> might do what you want.
>



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Best wishes!
Baohua
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