On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 01:00:22PM -0400, Scott Daniels wrote: > We've identified a need where it would be beneficial, via flow-mods, > to be able to push an ethernet, or ethernet and IP, header onto a > datagram. OVS already supports pushing an MPLS header, or VLAN tag, > onto the datagram, so this seems a natural extension to the existing > software. > > We have two questions that make sense to put out into the community > for comment: > > 1) Given that this function doesn't currently exist, is there a > reason that it was intentionally not included when either the > push_vlan or push_mpls actions were implemented?
It's not part of OpenFlow and we haven't had a need for it. > 2) If we were to offer a patch that provided the ability to do this, > would it be received favourably and up-sourced into the main body of > code? It depends on how well it fits into the existing code. We accept high-quality patches that make sense and fit the guidelines laid out in CONTRIBUTING and CodingStyle. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
