[ovs-discuss] openvswitc forwarding modes

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Jul 12 17:27:07 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:26 AM,  <mvpbl_c at iol.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two questions about OpenvSwitch and I hope someone can advise me.
> In the openvswitch features they speak about:
> -Kernel and user-space forwarding engine options
> -Multi-table forwarding pipeline with flow-caching engine
> What this means? can you give me some advise?
>
> In the normal switch it exist three forwarding modes, from what I know.
> Is possible in openvswitch to also specify one of three possible forwarding
> modes for each port, like:
> 1-Cut-through
> 2-Fragment-free
> 3-Store-and-forward

These are concepts from a hardware switch.  They don't make sense in
the context of software.



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