Thanks Murphy, yes, thats exactly what I was asking.

Thanks!
Rohan

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Murphy McCauley
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Rohan Gandhi wrote:
> > This might be a silly question, but, I was wondering if we can add the
> application layer information (simply an int type) based flow-entries. (I
> dont want to send every packet to the controller). I am not sure if we can
> do this based on the documentation I have read.
>
>
> Are you asking if you can (for example) use the TCP payload to
> discriminate packets within the switch (that is, as part of a flow match)?
>  If so, the answer is no -- OpenFlow currently provides no capabilities for
> this.  Check out the OpenFlow specifications (e.g., tables 2 and 3 in the
> OpenFlow 1.0 spec) for information on things that you CAN match on.
>
> (I'm not entirely sure I'm understanding the question, though -- feel free
> to give some clarification about exactly what you want to do.)
>
> -- Murphy

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