[ovs-discuss] STP on Ryu controller using Open vSwitch 2.4

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:34:20AM +0200, Alessio Giorgetti wrote:
> Dear Ben,
> 
> thank you a lot for your suggestions... I just set the forward-bpdu="true"
> in the bridge using the command:
> 
> > ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 other-config:forward-bpdu=true
> 
> and this is now correctly configured... however the system is still not
> working. It seems that bpdu frames are still discarded.
> 
> I see there are two options in the mod-port command...
> 
> - stp / no-stp
> - receive-stp / no-receive-stp
> 
> These are currently set to the default values. STP is not enabled on the
> switch. How should I set these parameters just to enable reception of STP
> frames and OpenFlow processing of them?

I think that this is a red herring.

I recommend using ofproto/trace (see ovs-vswitchd(8)) to figure out
what's happening to the packets.