[ovs-discuss] kernel datapath discards LLDP packet

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 06:24:27PM +0800, Liang Liang wrote:
> With nice help from Ben, I setup Open vSwitch with NOX successfully. But
> one new problem :(
> I started discovery component of NOX, which uses LLDP protocol to build up
> network topology. NOX sends LLDP packet to vswitch and requests vswitch to
> output the packet to specified port. Now the problem is vswitch discards
> it.....
> I turned on ovs-vswitchd log(netlink_socket and dpif) using ovs-appctl, the
> log shows that it receives one error reply from kernel and error no. is
> 22(invalid arguments).

I think you said earlier you were using 1.2.1.  This is probably the
bug fixed in the 1.2.2 release by the following commit.  Does
upgrading to 1.2.2 fix the problem?

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