On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:06:04AM +0000, Duankebo (Frank) wrote: > Thank you Ben. > > Yes, we can packetIn the ping request packet to Openflow controller, which > packet out a response then. > > But for every ping request packet, the controller have to packetIn/packetOut > the packet, imaging large scale datacenter where there are many hosts > > which may send ping request to virtual address(means address don't exist > physically and need Controller/switch to process the icmp request), > > the controller will become a choke point. > > So we are looking for better ways that the ping request can be responsed by > the vSwitch.
It's a reasonable request, and this feature will be useful to other software too (including the upcoming OVN), so we'd take a patch to implement this. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
