[ovs-dev] How to implement openflow vendor extensions

Rafael Duarte Vencioneck rafael.vencioneck at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 11:10:22 UTC 2014


Thank you Ben, this might help.


Rafael Duarte Vencioneck


2014/1/21 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 03:39:24PM -0200, Rafael Duarte Vencioneck wrote:
> > I'm interested in implement a new openflow 1.0 vendor extension message.
> > Can somebody kindly help me telling what do I have to modify on
> openvswitch?
> > I'm using the 1.9.3 version.
> > I would like to document this process too, since the current
> documentation is
> > scarce.
>
> Q: How do I implement a new OpenFlow message?
>
> A: Add your new message to "enum ofpraw" and "enum ofptype" in
>    lib/ofp-msgs.h, following the existing pattern, then recompile and
>    fix all of the new warnings.  (If you configure with
>    --enable-Werror, as described in INSTALL, then it is impossible to
>    miss any warnings.)
>
>    If you need to add an OpenFlow vendor extension message for a
>    vendor that doesn't yet have any extension messages, then you will
>    also need to edit build-aux/extract-ofp-msgs.
>
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