[pox-dev] How to make switch drop all the packets

Murphy McCauley murphy.mccauley at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 13:35:43 PDT 2019


Quoting from the OpenFlow 1.0 specification:
"If no forward actions are present, the packet is dropped."

.. so just don't set any actions on the corresponding entry and you should
be good.

-- Murphy

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:03 PM Sukheja, Himanshu <hxs376 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have my pox controller connected to a switch in mininet. Now, like the
> ovs command of dropping all the packets incoming to the switch action=drop.
> What is the similar command in pox to do that? I tried action =
> of.OFPT_DROP but get the error of 'module' object has no attribute
> 'OFPT_DROP'. Any leads are greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ************************************************************************
> Himanshu Sukheja
>
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