On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Moises Rodrigues wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to reproduce what was done in > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2620735 > For those who cannot access the paper, what authors proposed that > "switches in our system are augmented to have a stateful app > processing capability that uses higher layer information in packets", > this way an application running on top of Open vSwitch can access > information beyond L2-L4. > Is there some sort of API for such extension? I mean, if I want to do > extra analyses with incoming packets, how could I do that? Do I have > to make direct modification in Open vSwitch's code or is there an > easier way? > I googled for a while but I could not find anything that helps. Maybe > I used the wrong words but, if any of you guys could help I would > really appreciate it.
You can use the standard L2~L4 flow matching and if the packet is interesting, it can send to the controller. In this case the controller would pick the packet and do whatever additional processing needed. fbl _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
