[ovs-discuss] Ports in sflow samples from OVS

Adam Pavlidis adampavlidis at gmail.com
Fri May 15 10:13:56 UTC 2015


Thank you very much! That's exactly what i am searching for. However when i
try the above command i get this:

*ovs-vsctl: Interface does not contain a column whose name matches
"ifindex"*

i tried something more general, and as the above command stated no such
column:




























*sudo ovs-vsctl list Interface_uuid               :
18ee3470-ef22-4b6f-b9c3-4c6111842f1eadmin_state         :
upcfm_fault           : []cfm_fault_status    : []cfm_health          :
[]cfm_mpid            : []cfm_remote_mpids    : []cfm_remote_opstate  :
[]duplex              : fullexternal_ids        : {}ingress_policing_burst:
0ingress_policing_rate: 0lacp_current        : []link_resets         :
0link_speed          : 10000000000link_state          :
upmac                 : []mac_in_use          :
"3a:c5:8b:44:ab:4d"mtu                 : 1500name                :
"s1-eth2"ofport              : 2ofport_request      : []options
: {}other_config        : {}statistics          : {collisions=0,
rx_bytes=558, rx_crc_err=0, rx_dropped=0, rx_errors=0, rx_frame_err=0,
rx_over_err=0, rx_packets=7, tx_bytes=320, tx_dropped=0, tx_errors=0,
tx_packets=4}status              : {driver_name=veth, driver_version="1.0",
firmware_version=""}type                : ""*

I guess my mininet vm uses an older version of ovs that perhaps does not
support ifIndex?



*sudo ovs-vsctl --versionovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 1.10.2*



I would like to ask something else about sflow and ovs.

Lets say i have a mininet topology again with a couple virtual switches (s1
, s2)
I again add the sflow agents. I want to sort the samples based on which
switch they are received from.
I am thinking  *agentSubId* & *sourceId*  fields are the ones i must focus
on. However again, is there anyway to map
the sflow sample to the datapath Id my openflow controller understands?

sflow sample:

*sourceId 2:1000*


openflow controller:

*Connection [00-00-00-00-00-01 1]*




Thanks in advance

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Peter Phaal <peter.phaal at inmon.com> wrote:

> You can use ovs-vsctl to dump the naming information for the ports and
> extract the mapping between the SNMP ifIndex that sFlow uses to identify
> ports and the OpenFlow port number / name that the controller uses to
> identify ports:
>
> mininet at mininet-vm:~$ sudo ovs-vsctl --format json --columns
> name,ofport,ifindex list Interface
>
> {"data":[["s1-eth2",2,172],["s8-eth1",1,189],["s6",65534,203],["s7-eth8",8,159],["s3-eth2",2,176],["s4-eth3",3,186],["s3-eth4",4,192],["s3-eth1",1,168],["s4-eth2",2,178],["s8-eth4",4,195],["s1",65534,199],["s2-eth3",3,182],["s6-eth3",3,177],["s2-eth2",2,174],["s7",65534,202],["s5-eth7",7,150],["s4",65534,201],["s6-eth5",5,152],["s2-eth4",4,190],["s3",65534,200],["s7-eth5",5,156],["s7-eth2",2,183],["s3-eth3",3,184],["s8-eth6",6,161],["s6-eth1",1,173],["s1-eth3",3,180],["s7-eth1",1,181],["s8-eth7",7,162],["s8-eth8",8,163],["s4-eth4",4,194],["s8-eth2",2,191],["s7-eth6",6,157],["s1-eth4",4,188],["s5",65534,196],["s5-eth4",4,171],["s2-eth1",1,166],["s7-eth7",7,158],["s6-eth2",2,175],["s2",65534,197],["s8",65534,198],["s8-eth3",3,193],["s6-eth6",6,153],["s8-eth5",5,160],["s7-eth4",4,187],["s5-eth3",3,169],["s6-eth4",4,179],["s1-eth1",1,164],["s6-eth7",7,154],["s4-eth1",1,170],["s5-eth8",8,151],["s7-eth3",3,185],["s5-eth2",2,167],["s6-eth8",8,155],["s5-eth1",1,165],["s5-eth5",5,148],["s5-eth6",6,149]],"headings":["name","ofport","ifindex"]}
>
>
> On May 14, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Adam Pavlidis <adampavlidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am currently trying to use sflow in an SDN environment (mininet).
> I have successfully set up the sflow agent in the ovs bridge that is
> created by mininet.
>
> My main problem is this that the rules installed by my openflow controller
> specify some ports (e.g. port 1, port 2).
> However the ports i see in sflow samples are not the same ones. Each time
> mininet topology is re-estabilished, ingress and egress ports in the sflow
> sample vary.
>
> This is a sample from an ICMP Reply from host1 to host2.
>
>
>
> *sflow sample:*
> startSample ----------------------
> sampleType_tag 0:1
> sampleType FLOWSAMPLE
> sampleSequenceNo 20
> sourceId 2:1000
> meanSkipCount 1
> samplePool 20
> dropEvents 0
>
> *inputPort 675outputPort 677*
> flowBlock_tag 0:1001
> extendedType SWITCH
> in_vlan 0
> in_priority 0
> out_vlan 0
> out_priority 0
> flowBlock_tag 0:1
> flowSampleType HEADER
> headerProtocol 1
> sampledPacketSize 102
> strippedBytes 4
> headerLen 98
> headerBytes
> 00-00-00-00-00-02-00-00-00-00-00-01-08-00-45-00-00-54-CC-BC-00-00-40-01-99-EA-0A-00-00-01-0A-00-00-02-00-00-36-5F-64-2C-00-01-D4-CE-54-55-00-00-00-00-6F-7C-0E-00-00-00-00-00-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-1A-1B-1C-1D-1E-1F-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-2A-2B-2C-2D-2E-2F-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37
> dstMAC 000000000002
> srcMAC 000000000001
> IPSize 84
> ip.tot_len 84
> srcIP 10.0.0.1
> dstIP 10.0.0.2
> IPProtocol 1
> IPTOS 0
> IPTTL 64
> ICMPType 0
> ICMPCode 0
> endSample   ----------------------
>
>
> *ovs-dpctl dump-flows <DPath>*
>
> *in_port(2),*
> eth(src=00:00:00:00:00:01,dst=00:00:00:00:00:02),
> eth_type(0x0800),
> ipv4(src=10.0.0.1,dst=10.0.0.2,proto=1,tos=0,ttl=64,frag=no),
> icmp(type=0,code=0),
> packets:0,
> bytes:0,
> used:never,
> *actions:sample(sample=100.0%,actions(userspace(pid=4294962193,sFlow(vid=0,pcp=0,output=677)))),
> 3*
>
>
> *ovs-ofctl dump-flows s1*
>
> cookie=0x0, duration=1.939s, table=0, n_packets=1, n_bytes=98,
> idle_timeout=10, hard_timeout=30, idle_age=1, priority=65535,icmp,
> *in_port=1*,vlan_tci=0x0000,dl_src=00:00:00:00:00:01,dl_dst=00:00:00:00:00:02,nw_src=10.0.0.1,nw_dst=10.0.0.2,nw_tos=0,icmp_type=0,icmp_code=0
>
> *actions=output:2*
>
>
>
>
>
> Is there any way to map the ports in the sflow sample, to the ports
> understood by the openflow controller, and virtual topology?
>
> My aim is to find something like the following mapping:
>
> sflow  -> openflow
>
> "675" -> "port 1"
> "677" -> "port 2"
>
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