AFAIK, this should work. Have you actually inspected the switches? Are the relevant ports actually getting NOFLOOD set?
-- Murphy On Nov 29, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Bernd Wittefeld wrote: > Hi, > first of all: thanks for your great work and the really good support > here. I have a small problem and I hope someone knows what to do :) > > The situation is the following: > I have a network with 6 OpenFlow switches in a mesh here. The software > (switches and NOX) is working fine. > I use the spanning_tree module in order to prevent loops in the network > when flooding ARP-Requests and stuff. > I got everything to work fine and even the NOX Gui (I'm on destiny) > shows me a correct Spanning-Tree without loops. > I have two hosts which are connected to two different switches. If I > send an ICMP ping from one host to the other, I get the ARP requests in > the Openflow network. They travel along the spanning tree which I > checked by using wireshark and tcpdump. The other links don't show ARP > requests. > > Now the problem: > The ARP requests are not forwarded out of the OpenFlow network. That > means, they reach the switch that is connected to the destination host, > but the host does not get the ARP request. > > How can I solve this? Do I have to "manually" unset the NOFLOOD switch > on that port in my controller or is there any other way, maybe to make > the spanning_tree module more intelligent or am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks in advance > Bernd > > _______________________________________________ > nox-dev mailing list > nox-dev@noxrepo.org > http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list nox-dev@noxrepo.org http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev
