[ovs-discuss] OVS and RAW Sockets

Hassan Samii hassan_samii21 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 5 08:01:54 UTC 2016


So you suggest i find a way for a controller to do this? Could you suggest me a controller to use? or Would i have to make my own?Thanks again 

    Il Martedì 5 Gennaio 2016 1:06, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> ha scritto:
 

 This is probably an application for a controller.

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:34:42PM +0000, Hassan Samii wrote:
> I have an application that does LISP functions. This applicatioin listens for packets on a raw socket. 
> I understand that usually if there is a miss-match in the OVS flow table then the packet is sent to a controller (as a packet-in packet) who then has to decide what to do with the packet.
> Thing is, i need my application to recieve this miss-match packet. Is it possible in anyway for a controller or ovs directly to send it locally (through raw socket) to my application?
> Im really stuck here,    Thanks loads!
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>    Il Lunedì 4 Gennaio 2016 17:23, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> ha scritto:
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>  On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:47:31AM +0000, Hassan Samii wrote:
> > Hello,Is it possible to force OVS to channel packets to a raw socket?
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> No.
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> > If No, is there any alternative?Thank you!
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> What are you actually trying to accomplish?
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