[pox-dev] sending packets on all ports of the controller

Murphy McCauley murphy.mccauley at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 19:53:01 PST 2013


On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:04 PM, durga <c.vijaya.durga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> reserved port OFPP_FLOOD floods on all ports of the switch, is there any such port to which a controller can flood on all connections made to itself???
> 
> currently I tried sending ports on each connection using the dpid:connection map as below
> 
> 
>                          for aconnection in self.connections.values():
>                                         if event.connection != aconnection:#to avoid sending the pkt on incoming port
>                                                  aconnection.send(msg)
> 
> I am trying to implement proxy ARP(thanks to thread started by Muhammad) and am trying to make the controller flood the arpreq on all its connections incase of no entry , rather than instructing the switch to flood. 
> 
> as of now  I can see that controller is responding to both h3 and h1 with arp responses, but the table itself is built by sw1 flooding the initial arp req
> 
> <Screen Shot 2013-11-20 at 1.55.01 pm.png>

For starters, is 190 really screwy?  Is it actually a packet-out containing a packet-out which contains an ARP?  Because that doesn't sound right!

-- Murphy
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