Re: [ovs-discuss] In flow entries should 'action' be set to normal for BFD control packets

2015-02-11 Thread Padma Jayasankar
Hi, I want to monitor the links that form a path between two hosts. when any of the link fails the source switch has to be intimated so that it can reroute the traffic through the next alive bucket. for this bfd session has to be established between the the source switch and destination switch(whi

Re: [ovs-discuss] In flow entries should 'action' be set to normal for BFD control packets

2015-02-11 Thread Alex Wang
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Padma Jayasankar wrote: > Hi, > I want to monitor the links that form a path between two hosts. when any > of the link fails the source switch has to be intimated so that it can > reroute the traffic through the next alive bucket. for this bfd session has > to be

Re: [ovs-discuss] In flow entries should 'action' be set to normal for BFD control packets

2015-02-03 Thread Alex Wang
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Padma Jayasankar wrote: > Hi, > I have to use BFD for failure detection and when i went through some > examples the action field for the flow entries were set to 'Normal". Can't > we use 'output' action. In that case i have to add two entries (one for > each dire

[ovs-discuss] In flow entries should 'action' be set to normal for BFD control packets

2015-02-02 Thread Padma Jayasankar
Hi, I have to use BFD for failure detection and when i went through some examples the action field for the flow entries were set to 'Normal". Can't we use 'output' action. In that case i have to add two entries (one for each direction). Please claridy Thanks and Regards, Padma V