Re: [ovs-discuss] Error in installation of DPDK with OVS

2014-12-17 Thread Saloni Jain
Hi Alex/Kevin, Thanks for your help. I have retried with CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=n, and its working fine. Configuration of ovs is successful with only CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y set. Thanks and Regards, Saloni Jain -"Traynor, Kevin" wrote: - To: Saloni Jain , Alex Wang

[ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch with Intel-DPDK

2014-12-17 Thread Hiteshi Kalra
Hi Team, We are new to ovs-dpdk. We have successfully installad DPDK with Openswitch following the same steps as mentioned in INSTALL.DPDK.md. We want to contribute in OVS with Intel DPDK Enhancements.  Can you please suggest us some feature to take up for beginning? Also Is there any document

Re: [ovs-discuss] Firewall questions

2014-12-17 Thread Ashok Chippa
Thank you Justin and Maurice. I just found the answers I was looking for punting to controller and re-injecting the packet back into the pipeline. Yes, the "controller" action will do. And "resubmit" action for re-injecting the pkt back into the pipeline. Great that command completion will be avail

Re: [ovs-discuss] Firewall questions

2014-12-17 Thread Ashok Chippa
I did find the "*controller*" action in the manpage for ovs-ofctl command: *controller*:*max_len* Sends the packet to the OpenFlow controller as a ``packet in'' message. If *max_len* is a number, then it specifies the maximum nu

Re: [ovs-discuss] Firewall questions

2014-12-17 Thread Justin Pettit
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Ashok Chippa wrote: > > Any responses are appreciated. Checked the spec, and I do not see an action > to punt the packet to controller. In section 5.12 of openflow-spec 1.3, I see > the following actions: output, set-queue, drop, group, push-tag/pop-tag, > set-f

Re: [ovs-discuss] Firewall questions

2014-12-17 Thread Maurice Qureshi (maquresh)
Hi Ashoka, Have worked on OF1.0, so can tell you from OF1.0 perspective. (https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow/openflow-spec-v1.0.0.pdf) If an OF switch wants to sends a packet to the controller, it uses PACKET_IN message type. Thank

Re: [ovs-discuss] Firewall questions

2014-12-17 Thread Ashok Chippa
Including my previous questions: > > I am trying to takeover Table0 for Firewall function. Have couple of questions: > > 1) On a table-miss in Table0, I would like to punt the packet to user space, for DPI/FW processing. > There must be a way to punt the packet to user space? However, I do not

Re: [ovs-discuss] datapath flow and openflow flow

2014-12-17 Thread Justin Pettit
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:09 AM, Yang Yannan <601358...@qq.com> wrote: > > openflow flows support multiple tables. datapath flows comprise only a single > table. so how openflow flows in multiple tables are transfered into datapath > flow in a single table, especially when openflow flows contai

[ovs-discuss] datapath flow and openflow flow

2014-12-17 Thread Yang Yannan
hi openflow flows support multiple tables. datapath flows comprise only a single table. so how openflow flows in multiple tables are transfered into datapath flow in a single table, especially when openflow flows contain the action resubmit? regards Yang Yannan___