On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:26:28PM +1300, Tony van der Peet wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:14:55AM +0530, Shravan S K wrote: > >> 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 ? > > > >It's hard to tell. No one ever comes to us and says that they base > >their switch on OVS. You have to guess. > > For the record, Allied Telesis have a range of switches that use OVS.
Good to know. Do these switches implement a dpif provider or an ofproto provider? We're talking about dropping the ofproto provider layer, so it's an important question. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
