[ovs-discuss] How to turn off mac-learning on specific port
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu Jul 25 16:31:09 UTC 2013
Only the "normal" action does MAC learning, so "flood" will not.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:19:06PM +0800, Baohua Yang wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Best wishes!
> Baohua
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