[ovs-discuss] Bundles support for PacketOut messages

André Mantas andremantas7 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 19:46:50 UTC 2016


I was searching around the bundle implementation and found that the
packet-out message type is marked as "nice to have later"
in ofputil_is_bundlable function.

Not sure if this helps my cause...

André Mantas <andremantas7 at gmail.com> escreveu no dia quarta, 10/02/2016 às
19:33:

> 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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