Thank you for your answer. I am talking about adding a TTL like field. I
have visibility on the switches from start and the end hosts at first
arp request they send. So what you are suggesting is using an STP like
protocol just on ARP broadcast?
-Warsang
On 09/20/16 19:57, Justin Pettit wrote:
On Sep 20, 2016, at 2:34 AM, Warsang <wars...@minet.net> wrote:
Hello everyone, I am simulating a fat tree topology with ECMP. When one of my
host sends an ARP request in broadcast, the packet is broadcasted through all
switches which creates more and more traffic because I have no STP. My question
is simple. What is the best way to get rid of these immortal packets? I thought
of using something similar to a TTL header which would be decremented every
time the packet hits a switch and dropped when it gets to zero however this
method seems a bit too complicated to implement and I was wondering if there
was a better, more simple way to do so using OVS?
I'm not sure what a TTL would look like in ARP, since it doesn't have such a
field, and an L2 switch wouldn't normally decrement one even if there were. Do
you have enough visibility into the topology to program OVS to only forward
broadcasts in such a way that they won't form loops? I've seen some SDN
applications do this to make better use of their links than can be achieved
with STP.
--Justin
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