On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Yaxuan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > How does an OvS send the first packet out? > 1) the packet P1 gets into an OvS > 2) OvS sends a message with (part of) P1 to controller (with buffer_id) > 3) the controller sets a flow F1 in OvS > 4) then how does the OvS forward P1 in the next step? > 5.1) OvS directly broadcasts the packet? > 5.2) OvS matches P1 against the new flow table, and forwards P1 according to > the action of the matched flow F1?
The controller can specify what to do with the packet either directly or by applying the flow that was just inserted; OVS doesn't automatically do anything with the packet. The OpenFlow spec has more information on the possible behaviors. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
