Mellanox has been working with switchdev and openvswitch and have been upstreaming some work to the kernel to make what you have asked about to work with their spectrum switches. Maybe I can get confirmation from them later today to share some of their roadmap. Looks pretty good so far. I am going to attempt a distributed OpenFlow/OVS controller which might be able to make use of their underlying hardware.
Disclosure: I am an interested user and thought this might be appropriate for this list. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shravan S K Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 01:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [ovs-discuss] OVS supported hardware switches Hello, We are looking to buy a few OpenFlow-enabled switches. What advantages can be achieved by a hardware switch that also supports OVS? And can a hardware openflow L2 switch perform L3,L4 based openflow forwarding - can I inspect L3,L4 layers and take a decision based on them ? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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