[ovs-discuss] PACKET_IN context fields

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:24:50PM +0100, Sebastian Spies wrote:
> when OVS sends frames to the controller using PACKET_IN PDUs, it looks
> like [1].
> The OF1.3 spec says, that the switch must support context fields like
> OFB_IN_PORT - others are optional.
> Do you plan to support some or all of the fields like ETH_SRC and
> ETH_DST and ETHER_TYPE as a courtesy to the controller, so no additional
> packet parsing is needed?

I don't know of anyone working on that.

> OT and wrong list, but I would also like to see the parsed context
> fields being configured by the controller, as it would make no sense to
> parse a whole PDU down to port numbers, when I just consume ethernet
> fields. What do you think?

OVS has to parse the whole thing in any case.