Hi Reid, I tried with dl_type specified, now the flow is added correctly. Thank you!
Yimin On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Reid Price <r...@nicira.com> wrote: > Hi Yimin, > > You are using nw_dst as a flow match criteria, but nw_dst only makes sense > in the context of IP. Try doing > > ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 ip,nw_dst=11.1.1.5,actions=output:3 > > Note that "ip" is simply shorthand for "dl_type=0x0800". > > I've seen this question go through (and be answered) in the archives, but a > quick google search didn't turn up anything to link to. > > -Reid > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:07 PM, YIMIN CHEN <ymchen.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am experimenting with ovs-ofctl tool to manually add flows to >> openvswitch1.4.2. I am getting an issue with add-flow that I couldn't >> figure out what I did wrong. >> >> What I ran into is that whenever I tried to add a flow matching an >> destination IP, that match does not show up in the flow entry. Below >> is an example of what I did: >> >> ymchen@ymchen-lnx:~/ymchen/openvswitch-1.4.2$ sudo ovs-ofctl add-flow >> br0 nw_dst=11.1.1.5,actions=output:3 >> Jul 10 10:01:06|00001|ofp_util|INFO|normalization changed ofp_match, >> details: >> Jul 10 10:01:06|00002|ofp_util|INFO| pre: nw_dst=11.1.1.5 >> Jul 10 10:01:06|00003|ofp_util|INFO|post: <==== nw_dst is gone! >> >> Now if I dump flows, you can see nw_dst=11.1.1.5 is no longer there: >> >> ymchen@ymchen-lnx:~/ymchen/openvswitch-1.4.2$ sudo ovs-ofctl >> dump-flows br0NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4): >> cookie=0x0, duration=3.18s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, >> actions=output:3 >> >> Could anyone shed some light on what I did wrong? >> >> Thanks! >> Yimin >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> discuss@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
