Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-22 Thread Dani Camps
Hi, This is my version: ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 2.1.1 Compiled Apr 30 2014 14:41:26 BR Daniel On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Dani Camps wrote: > > I think the problem I am having is that the "ARP request to controller" > > hid

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Dani Camps wrote: > I think the problem I am having is that the "ARP request to controller" > hidden rule is not matching. This is what happens: > > 1) In the switch (192.168.56.203) connected to the controller > (192.168.56.103) I see ARP Requests coming

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-22 Thread Dani Camps
Hi Ben, I think the problem I am having is that the "ARP request to controller" hidden rule is not matching. This is what happens: 1) In the switch (192.168.56.203) connected to the controller (192.168.56.103) I see ARP Requests coming from the other switch: # tcpdump -i s3-eth0 19:47:32.818889

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
The OFPP_NORMAL action does act as a normal L2 bridge. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:29:12PM +0200, Dani Camps wrote: > Dear Ben, > > Thanks, I had already read it. What I do not understand from that > explanation though is how relaying happens when there is a switch in the > middle between another

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-22 Thread Dani Camps
Dear Ben, Thanks, I had already read it. What I do not understand from that explanation though is how relaying happens when there is a switch in the middle between another switch and the controller. For instance, the middle switch gets an ARP Request towards the controller, and according to rule (

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:05:56PM +0200, Dani Camps wrote: > Could anyone explain how is in-band supposed to > work? Especially the part where an ARP Request to the controller from a > connected switch should be treated as a NORMAL packet but still be > forwarded to the controller? There's a lot

[ovs-discuss] OVS in-band mode: working but need help understanding the reason

2014-05-21 Thread Dani Camps
Dear all, I have the following set up: -- -- So all switches and the controller live in network 192.168.56.0/24. In the switches, there is the OVS bridge (e.g. s3) who is assigned the ip address in the network 192.168.56/24, and then there are additional virtual interfaces that are a