On 10/01/14 at 10:08am, Justin Pettit wrote:
> On October 1, 2014 at 9:32:40 AM, Gustavo Miotto ([email protected]) 
> wrote:
> > Hi Franck,
> > First of all, thanks for your help. I messed up on the Netfilter and OVS.
> > I have one more doubt, if you can help me I will be very grateful. My
> > project aims to add Application layer support to OpenFlow, adding one more
> > field in the flow table; I would like to know if it is viable to create
> > this support in the ovs (using regex or anything else that matches
> > application headers like Http). Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Currently, this is not possible.  Thomas Graf (cc'd) and I spoke last night 
> about possibly leveraging some components from the Linux kernel to provide 
> some limited L7 matching.  He may be able to provide some additional details 
> if you're interested in working on this before we get the chance.

What we discussed in particular is leveraging what already exists in
the kernel in lib/textsearch.c. It's a extendible text search API
that works on non linear SKBs which would be required for L7.
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