No, for the same reason. Tunnel information is metadata so you can't construct a standalone packet that contains that.
On Tuesday, June 3, 2014, Wenyu Zhang <wen...@vmware.com> wrote: > Thanks for your help. > > And how about "ovs-appctl ofproto/trace ovs-dummy" command? The manual > about ovs-vswitchd says that it can generate a packet with "-generate" > option. > Can it fit my requirement? > > Bests, > Wenyu > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jesse Gross" <je...@nicira.com <javascript:;>> > To: "Wenyu Zhang" <wen...@vmware.com <javascript:;>> > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org <javascript:;> > Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:11:30 AM > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Is there any way to simulate the tunnel traffic in > test cases to test IPFIX feature? > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Wenyu Zhang <wen...@vmware.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > I am trying to simulate traffic in test cases to test IPFIX feature. > > > > For normal traffic, I can use "ovs-appctl netdev-dummy/receive " to > simulate > > it, just refer to the netflow and sflow cases in tests/ofproto-dpif.at > > And I can capture the IPFIX packets on lo interface as expected. > > > > But for tunnel traffic, I haven't find a workable way to generate this > kind > > of traffic. > > For example, I try to use "ovs-appctl ofproto/trace ovs-dummy" command > with > > "-generate" option. > > And we can see that the "sample" actions has been inserted as expected, > but > > these actions are not executed, and no IPFIX packets can be captured on > lo > > interface. > > > > Anyone knows about the usage of this command? Or other way to generate > the > > tunnel traffic to trigger IPFIX sample action? Thanks a lot. > > I don't believe that this is implemented. netdev-dummy/receive > constructs a packet from the flow and the discards everything else. > Since there is no support for additional metadata beyond the input > port or tunneling implemented in the dummy datapath, it basically ends > up looking like a non-tunneled packet arriving on a tunnel port >
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