Please don't drop the mailing list. OK, you're talking about TCP sequence numbers. Thanks, that helps.
The code for select groups can't efficiently access the sequence number for a TCP packet, since that varies on a packet-by-packet basis and would defeat caching. On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:36:19AM +0500, Tooba Ahsen wrote: > The sequence number is a part of the TCP header of a packet. Each packet of a > particular flow would have a sequence number greater than that of the packet > that was sent just before it. So it essentially tells you the order/sequence > of the packets, in case they reach the receiver in a jumbled order because of > delays and such. > I basically need to slightly change the select group code in the > ofproto-dpif-xlate.c file in the ofproto folder. So I need to access the > packet header information so that I can get the sequence number. But Im not > sure how to go about doing it. > > > Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:09:16 -0700 > > From: b...@ovn.org > > To: tooba-f...@hotmail.com > > CC: discuss@openvswitch.org > > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Need to access packet sequence numbers > > > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 11:34:52AM +0500, Tooba Ahsen wrote: > > > I need to alter the code for the select group implementation in ovs. I > > > need to access the sequence numbers of the packets that come in. I > > > haven't been successful so far, so can someone tell me how I should go > > > about doing so? > > > > What's the sequence number of a packet? > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
