The answer for both questions is 3. OpenFlow works on a per-packet basis.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:59 AM Vinllen Chen <cvinl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I kown that the flowmod with buffer_id will send the flow to the switch
> and let the packet_in with buffer_id to rego through the pipeline in the
> openflow switch.
>
> Here comes my questiones:
> 1.Does the buffer_id means one packet or one type of packet ? for example
> like from A ping B three times (just the icmp packet without arp), how many
> buffer_id does it will cache in the switch ? 1 or 3 ?
> 2.How many packet-in will be sent to openflow switch ? 1 or 3 ?
>
> Thankyou
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Vinllen
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