On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Mike Bursell wrote: >> In Open vSwitch, we have already defined protocol extensions that >> allow for extending the match. These extensions are, of course, >> incompatible with switches and controllers that only speak OpenFlow >> 1.0, but they provide a framework that makes adding more types of >> matching easier. Port range matching could be easily added here. >> >> Here is the description of the extensible match protocol: >> >> http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob;f=include/openflow/nicira-ext.h;h=5cf02e7c58a1b4fe6dac19b18c14104f503cbeee;hb=HEAD#l762 > > What's the status with this protocol and the OpenFlow standard? Has it > been proposed for inclusion?
The ONF is looking at how to make OpenFlow more extensible, and this (or something in the same spirit) is one approach that is under consideration. As Nick mentioned, you may want to contact your ONF contact at Citrix. This conversation is taking place in the Extensibility working group. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
