Re: [ovs-discuss] MAC address rule blocking failure

2011-12-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Our support team suggested out-of-band that you were using OVS 1.0.99. I set up OVS 1.0.99 (the tip of the "vlan-maint" branch) and experimented briefly with a setup similar to the one that you provided. I did not set up a restrictive flow table or configure a controller; that is unlikely to be k

Re: [ovs-discuss] MAC address rule blocking failure

2011-12-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
OK. So it seems that MAC learning entries are expiring in cases where we expect them to persist. I can look into that, if you can give me some more details; to start, the version of OVS involved. (I think that you might have already given detail to our support team in parallel; I'm trying to fin

Re: [ovs-discuss] MAC address rule blocking failure

2011-12-22 Thread Mike Bursell
I believe that there is nothing else going on at all. The CLI tools were used to construct the rules: no DVSC in play. -Mike. -- Mike Bursell. Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:35:45PM +, Mike Bursell wrote: > We've discovered what we suspect is a bug, and are looking for > th

Re: [ovs-discuss] MAC address rule blocking failure

2011-12-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:35:45PM +, Mike Bursell wrote: > We've discovered what we suspect is a bug, and are looking for > thoughts, please! > > Observed behaviour: > - Continuous pings being sent from laptop to vm1 > - vm2 is quiescent > - Intermittently, the response to a ping from laptop

[ovs-discuss] MAC address rule blocking failure

2011-12-22 Thread Mike Bursell
A Merry Christmas to all of you! We've discovered what we suspect is a bug, and are looking for thoughts, please! Observed behaviour: - Continuous pings being sent from laptop to vm1 - vm2 is quiescent - Intermittently, the response to a ping from laptop is seen on vm2 Hypotheses: 1. as vm2 is q