[ovs-discuss] Bundles support for PacketOut messages

André Mantas andremantas7 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 19:33:20 UTC 2016


Not that I'm aware of. Pica8 is the only switch I know that supports
OpenFlow 1.4, and it uses openvswitch.

Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> escreveu no dia quarta, 10/02/2016 às 19:12:

> Do other OpenFlow implementations support packet-out in bundles?
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:45:34PM +0000, André Mantas wrote:
> > Sorry about that. I tried to expose the idea because I'm not seeing
> another
> > way to notify other controllers without major modifications.
> >
> > PacketOut in bundles is something that is already "expected" by the OF
> > protocol. In that sense, we wouldn't modify the switch to have a new
> > behaviour but simply add a feature that the switch is "lacking" from the
> > protocol spec.
> >
> > Do you have other idea in mind to achieve the same goal?
> >
> > Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> escreveu no dia quarta, 10/02/2016 às 17:34:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 02:44:31PM +0000, André Mantas wrote:
> > > > I sent an email to the dev list (
> > > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-February/065870.html) but
> so
> > > far
> > > > no answer.
> > >
> > > It looks like I didn't receive that message, even though it appears in
> > > the archives.  I don't know why.
> > >
> > > > If no one is working on this, would it be ok for me to start trying
> to
> > > > implement it and then send a pull request?
> > >
> > > It looks like you didn't actually take my advice but instead decided to
> > > try to add packet-outs to bundles.  I still don't like that idea.
> > >
>
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