[ovs-discuss] Fwd: Send some information from openvswitch to floodlight controller

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:17:28AM +0530, Tanmay Jain wrote:
> Is there any way to generate a packet and add some information to it by
> writing a script at openvswitch and send it to floodlight controller. And
> after receiving that packet at controller how to use that information.

You can set metadata fields and then send the packet to the controller,
which can then read the metadata.