On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 01:25:40PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: > > > On May 1, 2018, at 11:21 AM, Sh j <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If the destination of a packet be an OVS, is there any way to set the OVS > > to get the packet without sending any packet_in messages to the controller > > for handling this packet? > > I'm not sure that I understand the question. Are you asking is there a way > for OVS to send some packets to the controller without sending an OpenFlow > packet-in? I suppose you could mirror the packet to a system through a > dedicated port, VLAN, or tunnel. However, if you want to be using OpenFlow, > packet-in is the natural way for sending packets to a controller.
Another way to interpret the question is, "Can I set up a flow without receiving a packet-in?" If that's the question, then the answer is "yes: the flow table can be modified independent of traffic." _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
