Thanks Ben. Yes, it would be redundant... Just trying to avoid re-extracting the fields...
Thanks On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:21:52PM -0800, Ashok Chippa wrote: > > I understand when a packet arrives, the ovs datapath extracts various > > fields from the packet and does a match. If there is no match and the > > action is set to CONTROLLER, the packet is sent to the controller. > > > > Question: Is there any way for ovs datapath to send the extracted fields > to > > the controller along with the packet? > > This is possible in OpenFlow 1.3 and later, but that information is > redundant with what's already found in the packet itself, which is also > sent to the controller. >
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