[pox-dev] Defining Dictionary in POX controller
Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah
11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk
Fri Nov 22 12:57:21 PST 2013
Hello Murphy McCauley,
I solved the duplication problem now I want to refresh the dictionary I
have defined after an idle_timeout. I want to set idle_timeout to 10. I
tried this but didn't get what I wanted.
msg.idle_timeout = 10
if msg.idle_timeout== True:
self.macaddrtable=' '
This will destroy all entries in dictionary. Is there any other way so that
only that entry whose idle_timeout has expired is removed and then
rearrange remaining entries in dictionary.
Just as a reminder. macaddrtable is dictionary defined which contains
source and destination mac addresses. When a packet arrives controller its
entry is saved in the dictionary macaddrtable.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <
11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
> Ok thank you I will check it out.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Murphy McCauley <
> murphy.mccauley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm just suggesting you work backwards to find the problem. Use
>> Wireshark to monitor the traffic to help determine where the duplicates are
>> coming from. If they're coming from a switch, I suggest you inspect the
>> table on that switch to see which table entry the switch. Then analyze the
>> OpenFlow traffic to that switch to find the OpenFlow messages which
>> installed the problematic entries. Then analyze your controller code to
>> see where you sent those problematic entries.
>>
>> -- Murphy
>>
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <
>> 11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you so much. Yes you are right about what you said but is there is
>> any other way, so that I can do this. I can read individual entries
>> statically but the problem is I want to get it dynamic.
>> Like I can print individual entries by using:
>>
>> print self.macaddrtable[1]
>> print self.macaddrtable[2]
>> print self.macaddrtable[3]
>> print self.macaddrtable[4]
>>
>> To get desired result dynamically I used loop. But you know what I got. :(
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Murphy McCauley <
>> murphy.mccauley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:20 AM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <
>>> 11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Murphy actually I am working on Traffic Engineering. I am now
>>> learning that how to forward traffic when we have dictionary on controller.
>>> I want to forward some entries of dictionary via queue-1 and some entries
>>> via queue-2. For this I have created dictionary and it created successfully
>>> with you help. Those entries of dictionary contain Source Mac Address and
>>> Destination Mac address. I created 2 queues on Interface 1 of switch. I
>>> then Pinged host 2 from host 1 and host 1 from host 3. It inserted four
>>> entries in dictionary created on controller. Entries in Dictionary are
>>> {1: (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:02'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01')),
>>> 2: (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:02')),
>>> 3: (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:03')),
>>> 4: (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:03'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01')) }
>>> Dear Murphy you asked earlier that you didn't get what I wanted to do. I
>>> think that I am just explaining it in easy way that I just want to forward
>>> two entries of dictionary via queue-1 and other 2 entries of dictionary via
>>> queue-2. I am just doing practice on different techniques of Traffic
>>> Engineering. I used the following code for forwarding traffic via queues:
>>>
>>> if self.macaddrtable=='': //When we have no entry in macaddrtable
>>> dictionary
>>> queue=1
>>> msg.actions.append(of.ofp_action_enqueue(port = port, queue_id =
>>> queue))
>>> else:
>>> for a in self.macaddrtable:
>>> if a<=2:
>>> queue=1
>>> msg.actions.append(of.ofp_action_enqueue(port = port,
>>> queue_id = queue))
>>> elif a>2:
>>> queue=2
>>> msg.actions.append(of.ofp_action_enqueue(port = port,
>>> queue_id = queue))
>>>
>>> The code worked fine and forwarded traffic via desired queues but after
>>> about 10 seconds of pinging, duplicate packets were detected. I don't know
>>> why duplicate packets were detected. Can you please tell the reason?
>>>
>>>
>>> My best guesses are that you are somehow creating a flow entry with
>>> multiple actions or a loop, but it's hard to say. I'd suggest that you try
>>> to use Wireshark or a similar tool to figure out where the duplicates are
>>> coming from. You should see the duplicates at the port of the destination
>>> host and the egress port of the last switch. Work backwards from there.
>>> If you find the source of the duplications is a switch, examine the flow
>>> table of that switch and see if you can spot the reason.
>>>
>>> -- Murphy
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Murphy McCauley <
>>> murphy.mccauley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's still hard for me to answer questions since I still don't know
>>>> what you're really trying to accomplish here.
>>>>
>>>> If you want entries to time out on the switch, set timeouts when
>>>> installing the table entry (sending the flow_mod). If you want
>>>> notifications when flows are removed on the switch, that's also an option
>>>> you can set when installing the entry; then listen to the FlowRemoved event
>>>> to tell when it has actually happened.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "exact mac". Your code records the
>>>> address the packets were sent to. If they were sent to the broadcast
>>>> address, then... that's the destination.
>>>>
>>>> -- Murphy
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <
>>>> 11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much Murphy for your help. I did it the way you explained.
>>>> But how can I refresh entries in the table. i.e. how to set idle timeout
>>>> and hard timeout for this so that the table can be refreshed or how the
>>>> entries can be updated when a flow is removed from flow table on Switch.
>>>> Another Problem is:
>>>> The code is as below.
>>>>
>>>> if (packet.src,packet.dst) not in self.macaddrs and
>>>> (packet.dst,packet.src) not in self.macaddrs:
>>>> self.macaddrs.add((packet.src,packet.dst))
>>>> self.macaddrtable[f_id]=(packet.src,packet.dst)
>>>> f_id=f_id+1
>>>> print "Mac Table is "
>>>> print self.macaddrtable
>>>>
>>>> When I created a topology with 3 hosts the following result was shown
>>>>
>>>> Mac Table is
>>>> {1: (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01'), EthAddr('ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff')), 2:
>>>> (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:02'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01')), 3:
>>>> (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:03'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:01')), 4:
>>>> (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:02'), EthAddr('ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff')), 5:
>>>> (EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:03'), EthAddr('00:00:00:00:00:02'))}
>>>>
>>>> The result I expected is little bit different in terms of broadcast
>>>> address. Like in 1 destination mac is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff but I was expecting
>>>> 00:00:00:00:00:02 and similar is the case with some other entries as well.
>>>> Is there any way so that I can get desired exact mac, not broadcast?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Murphy McCauley <
>>>> murphy.mccauley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It sounds like you need to record them as a pair to get what you want,
>>>>> so ... put them in as a pair.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like I may have been responsible for the problem you were
>>>>> seeing -- a little typo inserted an errant right square bracket. Try:
>>>>> self.macaddrs.add((packet.src,packet.dst))
>>>>>
>>>>> It's still not clear from context whether ordering matters to you (is
>>>>> A sending to B the same as B sending to A?). If it isn't, you might want
>>>>> to sort the two addresses or just check for both...
>>>>>
>>>>> if (packet.src,packet.dst) not in self.macaddrs and
>>>>> (packet.dst,packet.src) not in self.macaddrs:
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Murphy
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 9, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <
>>>>> 11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you so much Murphy. I tried it but got little problem in add
>>>>> function i.e. when I used
>>>>> self.macaddrs.add((packet.src,packet.dst])) it generated error in this
>>>>> function then I tried
>>>>> self.macaddrs.add(packet.src,packet.dst)
>>>>> It also generated an error that add must have 1 argument where as 2
>>>>> given. Then I tried
>>>>>
>>>>> if (packet.src,packet.dst) not in self.macaddrs:
>>>>> self.macaddrs.add(packet.src)
>>>>> self.macaddrs.add(packet.dst)
>>>>> self.macaddrtable[f_id]=(packet.src,packet.dst)
>>>>> f_id=f_id+1
>>>>>
>>>>> It didn't generate an error and I didn't get any repeated result but
>>>>> there was some problem in the code I got results as below.
>>>>> When I ping host1 from host 2 it added record in dictionary. Then I
>>>>> ping host 3 from h1 record was inserted again but the problem was, as
>>>>> record of host 1, host 2 and host 3 was saved in macaddrs and two records
>>>>> were there but when I pinged the hosts present in macaddrs i.e. 1, 2, 3
>>>>> like I ping host 2 from h3 as record was not present in macaddrtable still
>>>>> record was not added to dictionary. It is because addresses are saving in
>>>>> macaddrs one by one individually i.e. first source and then destination
>>>>> address. When packet arrives controller it checks for source and
>>>>> destination address in macaddrs as when there are individual record of each
>>>>> host it then doesn't execute IF body because source and destination
>>>>> addresses are already there as individual address. What to do with this????
>>>>> Kindly help.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Murphy McCauley <
>>>>> murphy.mccauley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> One possible answer is that you should keep a set of the ones you've
>>>>>> added so far...
>>>>>> self.macaddrtable = {}
>>>>>> self.macaddrs = set()
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if (packet.src,packet.dst) not in self.macaddrs:
>>>>>> self.macaddrs.add((packet.src,packet.dst]))
>>>>>> self.macaddrtable[f_id]=(packet.src,packet.dst)
>>>>>> f_id=f_id+1
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There might be better things to be done, but it's impossible to say
>>>>>> without knowing more (e.g., what you're trying to accomplish, what f_id is
>>>>>> used for, etc.).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Murphy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 9, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah <
>>>>>> 11msitqshah at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Hello everybody,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I have defined dictionary in POX controller and I by the name
>>>>>> addrtable and I am saving two things in this dictionary i.e. Source mac and
>>>>>> destination mac. What I have done is
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > self.macaddrtable = {}
>>>>>> > ...
>>>>>> > f_id=1
>>>>>> > self.macaddrtable[f_id]={packet.src, packet.dst}
>>>>>> > print self.macaddrtable
>>>>>> > f_id=f_id+1
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > It is saving source mac and destination mac in the dictionary but
>>>>>> the problem is when f_id increases it then save same source and destination
>>>>>> mac again and again.
>>>>>> > What I want is to save mac address only if its not in dictionary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Regards Sayed Qaiser Ali ShahMSIT-12 NUST (SEECS)*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Regards Sayed Qaiser Ali ShahMSIT-12 NUST (SEECS)*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Regards Sayed Qaiser Ali ShahMSIT-12 NUST (SEECS)*
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>>
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>>
>> *Regards Sayed Qaiser Ali ShahMSIT-12 NUST (SEECS)*
>>
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> *Regards Sayed Qaiser Ali ShahMSIT-12 NUST (SEECS)*
>
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*RegardsSayed Qaiser Ali ShahMSIT-12NUST (SEECS)*
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