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).
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