I've never used prefix matching on MACs, so I don't have any reason to remember, but it might be available in the Nicira Extended Match extension to 1.0 too.
-- Murphy On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Christoph Koehler wrote: > Thanks guys! I'll take a look, Sam. Just wondering since I was reading a > paper (PortLand from Sigcomm 09) that says that OF can do longest prefix > matching on MAC addresses (end of section 3.2). Didn't think that was the > case, so I wanted the check. > > Thanks again for the clarification! > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Christoph Koehler wrote: > > > Can Pox do wildcards on MAC addresses? Looks like the 1.1 spec allows for > > masks on IP and MAC, but I don't see anything like that in Pox. Could you > > clarify? > > Current versions of mainline POX only support OpenFlow 1.0, so MAC wildcards > are not possible. Partial IP wildcards are an OpenFlow 1.0 feature, however, > and those work fine in POX. > > POX mainline will be supporting 1.1 at some point. For the moment, you might > check out Sam Russell's branch -- he's been adding some 1.1 features. I > don't remember if partial MACs are something he's implemented. > https://github.com/samrussell/pox/tree/of11 > > -- Murphy >
