On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you are right that none of the current OVS vendor extensions are > initiated from the switch-side. I saw the message from Namgon on the > OpenFlow mailing list, and an older version of OVS (0.99.0) is being used. > That version contains our first stab at a management protocol, which used > OpenFlow for framing and initiated connections from the switch. In later > versions, we replaced that with a JSON-RPC management protocol that runs on > port 6632/TCP.
Good to hear: the fix to handle this in FV has just been pushed into master. > Obviously, I can't commit to never having any switch-side initiation of > vendor extensions, but we don't have any plans for them at the moment. Understood. I'm hoping that if/when that happens, there will be some identifying information in the message that I can use to demux to a slice, but let's cross that bridge when we come to it. Thanks for the (very) fast response, - Rob . _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
