[Should this be on ovs-discuss?  I don't see any openflow content
here, just OVS content.]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:37:39PM +0200, Roberto Doriguzzi Corin wrote:
> for a long time I've been using a PC mounting a 1Gbit NetFPGA card
> as OpenFlow switch. 

You don't need special hardware like NetFPGA for 1 Gbps.  A modern PC
server can handle that, no problem.

> This configuration has worked fine with the
> usual ofdatapath/ofprotocol daemons connected to a NOX controller.
> What I'm trying to do is testing OpenVSwitch 1.1.2 on this hw.

Why so old?  The latest "stable" OVS is version 1.2.1.

> I followed the procedures described in INSTALL.Linux and
> INSTALL.OpenFlow (and some other step-by-step howto's found around).
> What I obtain is that ovs-openflowd successfully connects to the
> controller (either NOX or ovs-controller through the localhost
> interface) but two hosts connected to two NetFPGA ports cannot ping
> each other. From the controller output I don't see any flow coming
> from the NetFPGA.

How does OVS talk to the NetFPGA?  Did you write a dpif
implementation, or do the NetFPGA ports appear as Linux network
devices, or...?

> Unfortunately I have not found any "official" documentation about
> putting OpenVSwitch to work with NetFPGA cards. This brings me to
> think that NetFPGA cards are not supported by OpenVSwitch.

Open vSwitch has no special support for NetFPGA.  (But if you want to
contribute some, I think we'd be open to that.)
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