On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > When Open vSwitch sends (part of or all of) a packet to the controller, it > keeps a copy around for a while, so that if the controller wants to send > that packet it can refer to it by a buffer index instead of having to > send back the entire contents. Until now, it has kept the packet around > for no more than 5 seconds, but a user reported that this is not long > enough in some conditions in the thread starting here: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/openflow-discuss/2011-May/002265.html
The test that was performed was hardly real world and I would be surprised if packets are still useful after 5 seconds of delay (at a single switch). _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
