You are correct that OpenFlow rules are stateless. As you suspect, you can implement basic firewalling rules, but you wouldn't be able to implement the full feature-set of iptables.
--Justin On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:37 PM, 刘家军 <[email protected]> wrote: > thank you for your reply. > > I was considering if it is possible to use openflow rules to implement some > kind of firewall like that can be achieved by iptables in OVS. However, > openflow seems to be stateless while iptables is stateful. What is your > opinion, can you give me some advice? thank you! > > 2012/8/15 Justin Pettit <[email protected]> > Currently only OpenFlow 1.0 (with a number of extensions that provide much of > the functionality of the later versions). There's work being done now to > support 1.1 and 1.2. > > --Justin > > > On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:18 PM, 家军 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to known which edition of openflow protocol was supported by OVS as > > of the release of openvswitch 1.7.0. However, I cann't find those > > information from the source code or from the web site. So, can anyone tell > > me. > > > > Thanks, > > justin > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > 刘家军 > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
