Viacheslav Galaktionov via dev <[email protected]> writes: > When a packet hits a flow rule without an explicitly specified helper, > OvS has to rely on automatic application layer gateway detection to > find related connections. This works as long as services are running on > their standard ports, e.g. when FTP servers use TCP port 21. > > However, sometimes it's necessary to run services on non-standard ports. > In that case, there is no way for OvS to guess which protocol is used > within a given flow. Of course, this means that no related connections > can be recognized. > > When a connection is committed with a particular helper, it's reasonable > to assume this helper will be used in subsequent CT actions, as long as > they don't override it. Achieve this behaviour by using the committed > connection's helper when a flow rule does not specify one. > > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Galaktionov <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Ivan Malov <[email protected]> > ---
Thanks, applied. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
