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
