Thanks Rajiv and Dan. Looks like we need metadata in any case for this to work. 
We initially thought of this, but our platform does not support metadata, so 
was wondering if there is a way without using metadata. Looks like there is 
none.

Also, what is the reason why Action Set does not support more than one action 
of the same kind?

Thanks
Kiran

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From: Rajiv Ramanathan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 1:58 PM
To: Kiran Yedavalli
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [openflow-discuss] Pushing 2 MPLS labels.

A couple of solutions (variations of the same theme) are:

Table 0: match on dest IP, set metadata
Table 1: match on input port, push inner label
Table 3: match on metadata, push outer label

or

Table 0: match on dest IP and input port, set metadata and push inner label
Table 1: match on metadata, push outer labe.


On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Kiran Yedavalli 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,

The problem is to push two MPLS labels onto a packet, the inner one based on 
input port and the outer one based on destination IP address. However, the spec 
does not allow this in any way. We looked at three options:

Option 1. Match on input port on table 0 and push a MPLS label, next, match on 
dest IP address in table 1 and push a MPLS label. The spec does not allows 
this, because we cannot look at the IP address after we push a MPLS label, 
according to the spec.

Option 2. Match on dest IP address on table 0 and push a MPLS label, next, 
match on input port in table 1 and push a MPLS label. But in this case, 
according to the spec, we can only push an outmost label everytime we push. 
This does not work for us either.

Option 3. Accumlate all actions in the Action Set using the WriteActions 
Instruction. This does not work either, because the Action Set cannot have more 
than one of the same kind of action.

Is there any other way of accomplishing this? If not, we think this is a flaw 
in the spec that does not allow for inserting more than one label.

Thanks
Kiran




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