On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:26:29AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> 
> > On May 25, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Avi Cohen (A) <avi.co...@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > I need to capture all received SYN packets from all interfaces and to 
> > mirror/output to a specific interface in addition to the operational 
> > interface that these packets should be forwarded.
> > Can I do it with a single dpctl  add-flow cli command ?  and not modify the 
> > 'operational' flows that are used to normally connect TCP clients to TCP 
> > servers ?
> 
> No, if you run ovs-vswitchd, it will be confused when flows are added with 
> ovs-dpctl, and delete them.  Also, I don't think that would work, since the 
> kernel module will only apply actions from a single flow, so you'll either 
> send the SYN packet to your collector or forward it appropriately, but not 
> both.
> 
> You should be able to construct what you want pretty easily with ovs-ofctl 
> flows, though.

Avi might be talking about "dpctl" from the OpenFlow reference
implementation, which (confusingly) uses OpenFlow.
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