Hello Justin, I would like to uniquely identify a packet that is being going through the switch and store it in a file with the timestamp when it reaches an OVS. This is what I mentioned as capturing timestamps initially. Could I do this by altering the code in datapath module?
Thank you, Ajeeth Kannan On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@ovn.org> wrote: > As I mentioned before, please don't drop the mailing list. > > It's open source, so you're free to modify the datapath. Once again, I > don't know what you're storing or where you'd store it, but you can modify > the code on your system as much as you'd like. It's not clear whether the > patches would be accepted upstream due to the questions I mentioned earlier. > > --Justin > > > > On Oct 19, 2016, at 12:58 AM, Ajeeth Kannan (RIT Student) < > ak5...@rit.edu> wrote: > > > > Hello Justin, > > > > Could I alter the code in datapath module to store the timestamp ? > > > > Thank you, > > Ajeeth Kannan > > > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@ovn.org> wrote: > > Please don't drop the list. > > > > The dataplane is just forwarding packets through it, so I'm not sure > what it would store. For a particular datapath flow, we keep the last time > that a packet hit it, but that's about it. As I mentioned, if you want to > send copies of packets to a collector, you could look at sFlow or IPFIX. > > > > --Justin > > > > > > > On Oct 18, 2016, at 8:04 PM, Ajeeth Kannan (RIT Student) < > ak5...@rit.edu> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Justin, > > > > > > I am trying to store the timestamp of the packets that go through OVS. > Is there a way to do it ? > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Ajeeth Kannan > > > > > >
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