[ovs-discuss] exclude a port in flooding

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Feb 22 18:50:08 UTC 2014


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:40:04AM +0530, murali reddy wrote:
> For a flow with NORMAL action, in case of unknown MAC address, i believe
> packets get flooded on all ports. Is there a way i can define flow rule
> with NORMAL action yet exclude certain ports from flooding the packet?

You can disable flooding to a port by turning on the "noflood" bit via
openflow, e.g. "ovs-ofctl mod-port".



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