[ovs-discuss] Mark copy of packet to controller in openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

Then write two actions, one to send the packet to the controller and the
other to send it to the out port.

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:31:39AM +0000, Navneet Kaur wrote:
> I want the openvswith to send two copy of packets. One copy to the
> controller and other copy to the outport.
> 
> Regards
> Navneet
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:40 PM
> To: Navneet Kaur
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Mark copy of packet to controller in openvswitch
> 
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:02:14AM +0000, Navneet Kaur wrote:
> > For one of the flows in the openvswitch; I want to mark copy of a
> > packets to the controller. I modified the NOX flow modification code
> > and set out port as OFPP_CONTROLLER, the packets reached controller,
> > I have checked.
> > 
> > I couldn't find a way in openflow 1.0 spec; to how to mark copy, so
> > tried adding two flows one for CONTROLLER and one for outport but
> > not successful.  What shall I do ?
> 
> What does it mean to mark a packet?
> 
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