Hello,

An update on the matter, I discovered that the cause of my crashing is not from connecting to the controller, but because of this command:

/sh ovs-vsctl -- set Bridge s1 netflow=@nf -- --id=@nf create NetFlow targets=\"192.168.1.2:5566\" active-timeout=10/

I'm on ovs 2.1.2, linux kernel version 3.11 and is working with kernel module I compiled with gcc 4.7. At first I thought it is because of the controller, but actually it's not. The moment I add NetFlow configuration, the switch crashed, than come back again, then crash again, infinitely. However, in the testsuite, tes-netflow just run successfully.

/2014-07-26T14:23:31.315Z|00017|daemon(monitor)|WARN|9 crashes: pid 6215 died, killed (Segmentation fault), core dumped, waiting until 10 seconds since last restart// //2014-07-26T14:23:41.315Z|00018|daemon(monitor)|ERR|9 crashes: pid 6215 died, killed (Segmentation fault), core dumped, restarting/

This is syslog:

/Jul 27 15:35:48 LilBao ovs-vsctl: ovs|00001|vsctl|INFO|Called as ovs-vsctl -- set Bridge s1 netflow=@nf -- --id=@nf create NetFlow "targets=\"192.168.1.2:5566\"" active-timeout=10//
//....//
//Jul 27 15:35:49 LilBao kernel: [ 241.781970] ovs-vswitchd[1738]: segfault at 10 ip 0000000000431469 sp 00007fff8fb8c500 error 4 in ovs-vswitchd[400000+141000]//
//....//
//Jul 27 15:35:50 LilBao ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00002|daemon(monitor)|ERR|1 crashes: pid 1738 died, killed (Segmentation fault), core dumped, restarting//
//.... and then after that the log of the restart of all switches/

So again, I hope you guys can give me suggestion on my 3 questions that I previously asked: 1 - If the netflow configuration is wrong, please point out for me. Or if my concept is wrong, please. :)
2 - Do netflow require a kernel module or just user space is enough?
3 - If a kernel module is required, so can you suggest me with the good version combination between kernel, ovs and gcc?

Thank you so much,
Duy

On 07/26/2014 05:16 PM, Duy Bach Ha wrote:
Hi all,

I'm running an experimental mininet network of 6 ovs switches and some hosts (with ip in 192.168.1.0/24) and try to deploy Netflow on the switches. The controller I'm using is opendaylight. So for example:

/sudo mn --switch ovsk --controller remote --custom /smile/ncstestmap.py --topo ncstestmap --arp/ /sh ovs-vsctl -- set Bridge s1 netflow=@nf -- --id=@nf create NetFlow targets=\"192.168.1.2:5566\" active-timeout=10/

Everything went fine, I can check with ovs-vsctl list NetFlow or list Bridge and the configuration is there.

My purpose is just to use wireshark to see on (for example) all s1 interfaces the Netflow (cflow in wireshark) packets coming to the destination. I first try it with ping and then with udp client and server. All shows up on wireshark. (According to wiki, netflow v5 also consider ping as a flow). But no netflow report is coming out. In /var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log, no collector failure or something like that is showing.

I have tried downgraded to kernel version to 3.11.10 (with headers installed) and compiled a kernel module for 2.1.2 with gcc 4.7 (which is the one used to compile 3.11.10 for ubuntu). But the switches just crashed at the moment it connect to the controller. Sometimes at the first run after compilation work, it works and the next restart it does not.

/2014-07-26T14:23:31.315Z|00017|daemon(monitor)|WARN|9 crashes: pid 6215 died, killed (Segmentation fault), core dumped, waiting until 10 seconds since last restart// //2014-07-26T14:23:41.315Z|00018|daemon(monitor)|ERR|9 crashes: pid 6215 died, killed (Segmentation fault), core dumped, restarting/

I search harder and haven't get any idea what is wrong with my configuration. So here is my questions:

1 - If the netflow configuration is wrong, please point out for me. Or if my concept is wrong, please. :)
2 - Do netflow require a kernel module or just user space is enough?
3 - If a kernel module is required, so can you suggest me with the good version combination between kernel, ovs and gcc?

Best regards,
Duy

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Bach Ha Duy
INFOTECH Master Program
University of Stuttgart, Germany

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