[ovs-discuss] OVS Faucet tutorial broken

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Sep 18 04:48:08 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 09:33:54AM +1200, Brad Cowie wrote:
> On 31 August 2018 at 08:05, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Well, that wouldn't be too hard, I guess.  It's too bad that there's no
> > > way with a Table Features Request to just modify *some* of the
> > > properties of a table (such as the name).  I guess that Faucet would
> > > have to spit back at OVS all the capabilities that OVS says it supports,
> > > and then OVS would have to verify that it was actually the same.  That
> > > seems a little prone to error, but probably we could get it right.
> >
> > It was more work than I expected (what isn't?) but I did finish it:
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=63372
> > or
> > https://github.com/blp/ovs-reviews/tree/multipart-requests2
> 
> 
> 
> Perfect,
> 
> We had a play internally with mod-table and it seems to work.
> We are a little swamped at faucet at the moment due to some
> impending deployment deadlines but I have raised a feature
> request against faucet to use the new code:
> 
> https://github.com/faucetsdn/faucet/issues/2420
> 
> I have also submitted a patch upstream for updating the faucet
> tutorial, do let me know if you want any changes!
> 
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-September/352046.html

Thanks a lot!

The series hasn't been reviewed yet; if I don't get a review in the next
week or two, maybe I'll apply it and add a Tested-by from you.


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