> On May 25, 2017, at 10:44 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:26:29AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 25, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Avi Cohen (A) <avi.co...@huawei.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> I need to capture all received SYN packets from all interfaces and to 
>>> mirror/output to a specific interface in addition to the operational 
>>> interface that these packets should be forwarded.
>>> Can I do it with a single dpctl  add-flow cli command ?  and not modify the 
>>> 'operational' flows that are used to normally connect TCP clients to TCP 
>>> servers ?
>> 
>> No, if you run ovs-vswitchd, it will be confused when flows are added with 
>> ovs-dpctl, and delete them.  Also, I don't think that would work, since the 
>> kernel module will only apply actions from a single flow, so you'll either 
>> send the SYN packet to your collector or forward it appropriately, but not 
>> both.
>> 
>> You should be able to construct what you want pretty easily with ovs-ofctl 
>> flows, though.
> 
> Avi might be talking about "dpctl" from the OpenFlow reference
> implementation, which (confusingly) uses OpenFlow.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if he was abbreviating or not.  If that is what he's 
talking about, he's not using OVS, of course.

--Justin


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