[ovs-discuss] openflow supporting in OVS?

[Justin Pettit]

You are correct that OpenFlow rules are stateless.  As you suspect, you can implement basic firewalling rules, but you wouldn't be able to implement the full feature-set of iptables.

--Justin


On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:37 PM, 刘家军 <iamljj at gmail.com> wrote:

> thank you for your reply.
> 
> I was considering if it is possible to use openflow rules to implement some kind of firewall like that can be achieved by iptables in OVS.  However, openflow seems to be stateless while iptables is stateful. What is your opinion, can you give me some advice? thank you!
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> 2012/8/15 Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> Currently only OpenFlow 1.0 (with a number of extensions that provide much of the functionality of the later versions). There's work being done now to support 1.1 and 1.2.
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> --Justin
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> On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:18 PM, 家军 <iamljj at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I want to known which edition of openflow protocol was supported by OVS as of the release of openvswitch 1.7.0. However, I cann't find those information from  the source code or from the web site. So, can anyone tell me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > justin
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> 刘家军
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