[ovs-discuss] Packet inspection implementation

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Xu Zhongxing <xu_zhong_xing at 163.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My task is to implement some packet inspection function in openvswitch,
> e.g., to compare each packet with some virus signature. I guess this should
> be put in the kernel module. I am reading the code. Could someone give me
> some hint on where I could put the code exactly? Thank you.

Open vSwitch is designed to operate statelessly on flows, so it is not
particularly well suited to virus scanning.