[ovs-discuss] OVS not forwarding packets to port

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:17:03PM +0200, Chris Picton wrote:
> At layer3, I can use the 'ip route get *' commands to determine how
> the kernel will route a packet.  Is there any equivalent command to
> inspect the ovs behaviour.  I would like to ask ovs: 'If I send a
> packet with src mac 00:15:17:91:05:4c which came in on interface
> bondV tagged with vlan 3, destined to mac 52:54:00:60:29:8c, what
> port would it be forwarded to?'

Yes, you can use "ovs-appctl ofproto/trace", please see
ovs-vswitchd(8) for more details.