On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:33:12PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> 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).

It's true.  If you don't think this would be useful in a real-world
setting I'll drop it.
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