[ovs-discuss] Port range matching
Mike Bursell
mike.bursell at citrix.com
Mon Aug 8 10:04:06 UTC 2011
<SNIP>
> In Open vSwitch, we have already defined protocol extensions that
> allow for extending the match. These extensions are, of course,
> incompatible with switches and controllers that only speak OpenFlow
> 1.0, but they provide a framework that makes adding more types of
> matching easier. Port range matching could be easily added here.
>
> Here is the description of the extensible match protocol:
> http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob;f=include/openflow/nicira-ext.h;h=5cf02e7c58a1b4fe6dac19b18c14104f503cbeee;hb=HEAD#l762
What's the status with this protocol and the OpenFlow standard? Has it
been proposed for inclusion?
> > Given these changes, my initial feeling is that it shouldn't be too
> > difficult to add the matching to the vSwitch itself. If the tp_*_end
> > wasn't set, then we could safely ignore it matching time.
>
> The biggest question in my mind is not how to formulate range matches
> but how to efficiently integrate them into the classifier. Do you
> have thoughts on that?
Could you give some more details, please? I'm not looked into this area
much yet.
Cheers,
-Mike.
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Mike Bursell, Network Subsystem Architect
Citrix Systems R&D. +44 7971 926937
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