[ovs-discuss] ofp sample action

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 09:14:54AM +0200, Rüdiger Birkner wrote:
> 2016-07-13 6:08 GMT+02:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 09:47:32PM +0200, Rüdiger Birkner wrote:
> > > I just came across line 4748 of ofproto-dpif-xlate.c on branch-2.5
> > > <
> > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/branch-2.5/ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c#L4748
> > >.
> > > It mentions a sampling action which I would like to experiment with.
> > > However, I couldn't find the corresponding Openflow Action to activate
> > the
> > > sampling. Is it supported by any Openflow version? How could I make use
> > of
> > > it?
> >
> > It's documented in the ovs-ofctl manpage.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the answer!
> 
> I looked at the documentation and it is not clear to me whether this is
> actually a OpenFlow action or just an action that ovs supports. Which
> OpenFlow version introduced the sample action?

This is an Open vSwitch extension to OpenFlow.