[ovs-discuss] recirculation on custom action.

David Evans davidjoshuaevans at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 18:35:13 UTC 2015


Thank you Joe.

I have muddled around and found that doing it the same way as MPLS does
with a more generalized version of ‘was-mpls’ type flagging seems to do
what I want.

Regards,
Dave.

On 8/7/15, 11:57 AM, "Joe Stringer" <joestringer at nicira.com> wrote:

>On 4 August 2015 at 13:45, David Evans <davidjoshuaevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi OVS
>>
>> I¹d like to trigger a recirculation based on a packet modifying action.
>> What¹s the best way to do this?
>>
>>
>> 1. add another custom action?
>> 2. Add a compose_recirculate_action() in do_xlate_actions() for my
>>custom
>> action?
>> 3. Another way I haven¹t heard of.
>
>In general I believe that we've tried to hide recirculation away from
>the OpenFlow interface as it can have complicated repercussions on the
>pipeline, so that lends itself to #2. But it depends on what you're
>trying to achieve through recirculation.





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