On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:31:05PM +0900, Jari Sundell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 01:51:42PM +0900, Jari Sundell wrote: > >> The new learn action seems to be lacking a way to add flows with the > >> resubmit action, which would be useful when the routing happens after > >> the flow is created. Is this a planned feature? > > > > It's not a planned feature. > > > > Can you give an example? > > Basically I got a host with multiple virtual machines, and to keep the > flow table sizes reasonable I've split up the filtering and routing > into two parts; filtering what an instance is allowed to send, etc, in > the first stage, then in the second stage do filtering what an > instance is allowed to receive and sending to the right port. > > So in order to avoid asking the controller for every single new > connection made from the instance, the first stage needs to be able to > add flows that can pass packets to the second stage table. If the > requested feature is not available, I'll have to look into adding > extra tables duplicating the second stage which instead saves the > output port in the registry... Basically it'll get very messy.
Can't you just do learn(table=2, ...), resubmit(,2), resubmit(,3) where table 2 is the learning table and table 3 is the second stage? _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss