[ovs-discuss] A quick question

Ashok Chippa a.n.chippa at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 20:18:27 UTC 2015


Thanks Ben. Yes, it would be redundant... Just trying to avoid
re-extracting the fields...

Thanks

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:21:52PM -0800, Ashok Chippa wrote:
> > I understand when a packet arrives, the ovs datapath extracts various
> > fields from the packet and does a match. If there is no match and the
> > action is set to CONTROLLER, the packet is sent to the controller.
> >
> > Question: Is there any way for ovs datapath to send the extracted fields
> to
> > the controller along with the packet?
>
> This is possible in OpenFlow 1.3 and later, but that information is
> redundant with what's already found in the packet itself, which is also
> sent to the controller.
>
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