[ovs-discuss] waht is the process when packets are matched against multiple tables in the pipeline [in the latest version of OpenFlow Switch Specification]

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sun Dec 30 17:50:28 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 02:19:55PM +0800, Soger wrote:
> waht is the process when packets are matched against multiple tables
> in the pipeline [in the latest version of OpenFlow Switch
> Specification]?
>
> Is it match against the flow tables one by one simply or depends on
> the instrcutions associated with the flow entry, that means it will
> goto other flow tables only when the matched flow entry has the goto
> table instruction?

The former is what OpenFlow specifies. OVS doesn't implement that yet.



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