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

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