OpenFlow flow entries on Open vSwitch (OVS) HD

This video looks at how flow entries work in an OpenFlow enabled switch. In this video its done with Open vSwitch and adding flow entries via the ovs-ofctl command. The network is emulated with Mininet. Links Me: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmahler Open vSwitch: http://openvswitch.org/ ovs-ofctl documentation: http://openvswitch.org/support/dist-docs/ovs-ofctl.8.txt Mininet: http://mininet.org/ Open Networking Foundation (OpenFlow): https://www.opennetworking.org/ Check my YouTube channel for introduction videos on OpenFlow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25Ukkmk6Sk Open vSwitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYW7kQRyUvA Mininet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlgXaocwiE dl_type, nw_proto values and keywords (from ovs-ofctl MAN page): ip: dl_type=0x800 arp: dl_type=0x806 (nw_proto=1 for requests,nw_proto=2 for replies) rarp: dl_type=0x8035 icmp: dl_type=0x800,nw_proto=1 tcp: dl_type=0x0800,nw_proto=6 udp: dl_type=0x0800,nw_proto=17 ipv6: dl_type=0x86dd tcp6: dl_type=0x86dd,nw_proto=6 udp6: dl_type=0x86dd,nw_proto=17 icmp6: dl_type=0x86dd,nw_proto=58