[ovs-discuss] Stopping ARP on OpenVSwitch

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Wed Feb 5 19:51:14 UTC 2014


Can't you just write a flow that matches broadcast ARP and sends them to
the controller?  The controller can push down flows to send them to a
specific port at a higher priority.

--Justin


On 2/5/14, 9:55 AM, "tyler derden" <serbico at hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I hope someone can help me with my question below!
>I want to stop ARP broadcast on OVS whenever it gets a new packet with
>new destination IP/Mac, and instead of broadcast just to send it directly
>to the NOX controller, were the NOX controller will take the decision to
>what specific  switch port number to send the packet to.
>
>Any ideas how i can structure that?
>
>Thanks in advance :)
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