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[openflowplugin-dev] Error when installing flow with ArbitraryMask

Anil Vishnoi
 



On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Vincent Jahjah <vincent_jahjah@...> wrote:

Hello ODLers,


I have been using OpenFlowPlugin a bit, and I have been noticing strange behavior regarding the rules I've been installing in the newer version of my code.


I have been successfully installing flows with ArbitraryBitMask on ipv4 addresses, but I have found that some such specific flows were causing errors in openflowplugin.


Here is the code relevant to the error:


https://pastebin.com/yJDZesXU


Here are the errors I get every time I install a rule that walks through these lines:


https://pastebin.com/c9HYLBt6


Explaination: I may or may not know the IP of the flows. If I do not know the IP of the flows, I put an "any" kind of mask that is scattered across the least significant n bits of the unknown ip addresses.


If the IP address is known, typically, I will not set a mask, and I will put the known address instead. This may lead to having the "set" the fields twice, overwriting the previous values... but the resulting values always seem clean. Last attempt, I printed the contents of my matcher, and got the following:


(first flow installed: the known address was injected, which caused an error)

SRC: Ipv4Address [_value=10.99.99.1] DEST: Ipv4Address [_value=0.0.0.0]
SRCM:DottedQuad [_value=255.255.255.255] DESTM: DottedQuad [_value=0.0.0.3]
​Can you please start a wireshark on the controller side and monitor the OpenFlow message between controller and switch? I suspect in the above case switch might be throwing some error saying invalid match. As per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735 0.0.0.0/8 addresses are used for source address only.
I think wireshark will give you more information on what's happening at the switch level.

The exception in pastebin is basically a deserialization exception , it means it was not able to parse the ipv4 destination address that came from the switch. So again, we need to have a look at the wireshark trace to see what's happening here.

(second flow installed: I purposefully commented the lines that would set the destination, resulting in null destination fields. This did not cause any errors. I know this from experiment, although it was not obvious with this experiment alone.)
SRC: Ipv4Address [_value=0.0.0.0] DEST: null
SRCM:DottedQuad [_value=0.0.0.3] DESTM: null


Interestingly, if I invert the values, I still get an error, and still an error concerning the destination.

The flows that don't fail are installed correctly, as they are shown by "ovs-ofctl dump-flows".


... My question is... what's wrong here? Obviously, "10.99.99.1" and "255.255.255.255" are valid Ipv4Addresses and DottedQuads. They are by no means "malformed".


Why would the flow fail to install? What is malformed?


Vincent


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Anil
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