[ovs-discuss] Packet inspection with Open vSwitch

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Moises Rodrigues <moisesber at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I forgot to mention that the idea is to make the inspection as close
> to the switch as possible. Trying to avoid the need to contact another
> entity, and all the overhead that may come with it.
>

The common way to do this would be to run a process that does your
inspection and expose it to the OVS datapath as a tap interface, which you
can then just forward packets to and from.

--
Nick
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