[ovs-dev] enable OF1.1-OF1.3 by default?

Tue Apr 29 16:48:49 UTC 2014

On 4/29/2014 10:53 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Looking through OPENFLOW-1.1+, Open vSwitch is missing only one feature
> that is required for OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3, which is:
>
>      * VLANs tagged with 88a8 Ethertype.  This requires kernel work for
>        reasonable performance.
>        [required for OF1.1+]
Ben, by "requires kernel work" do you mean "requires OVS linux datapath 
work" or do you mean "requires upstream kernel work?"
>
> I'm proposing that we ignore this for the purpose of enabling OpenFlow
> 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 by default in ovs-vswitchd.  What does everyone think?
>
> (Enabling all those versions in ovs-ofctl by default is a slightly
> different issue, and I'd prefer to discuss that separately.)
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