[ovs-discuss] SELECT groups - hash

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 06:45:50PM +0100, Slavica Tomovic wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> I am using SELECT Group tables for load balancing purposes in OpenFlow
> network. However, I found that OVS by default performs hashing only on IP
> addresses, MAC addresses, VLAN IDs, TCP ports and EthType fields. Is it
> possible to change this and use a hash function that depends on UDP port?
> 
> I have read these posts:
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2016-July/041934.html
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2015-March/214529.html
> 
> and according to them I need to do this by implementing a logic for
> creation of group properties structure on SDN controller. Can I avoid this
> somehow and configure OVS switches with some command to perform hashing on
> UDP ports?

It sounds like you just need to use ovs-ofctl to configure the behavior
you want.  Did you read the "Group Syntax" section in the manpage?  You
want to specify the "fields" parameter.