Hi Raymond, On 26 August 2018 at 08:44, Raymond Burkholder <r...@oneunified.net> wrote:
> On 2018-08-24 06:57 PM, Brad Cowie wrote: > > On 25 August 2018 at 12:07, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:09:41AM +1200, Brad Cowie wrote: >> > By the way we can dynamically generate our openflow pipeline now such >> > that tables are automatically sized (more important for real hardware) >> > and disable tables that aren't used (e.g. FIB tables are now turned >> > off when routing disabled, ACL tables disabled when no ACLs have been > > On 25 August 2018 at 12:07, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> OVS does of course run on some hardware >> switches; I don't know whether the vendors who customize it for their >> hardware add support for OFPMP_TABLE_FEATURES so that it can configure >> trade-offs, though I suspect they do not. > > > We are using Table Feature Messages (TFM as we call it in faucet) to drive > 3 vendor > hardware switches today. I know at least one of them is using Open vSwitch > under > he hood as the OpenFlow Agent (OFA) so I assume at least one vendor has > modified > OVS to add support. > > > Are you able to name those vendors? It would be of interest to evaluate > capabilities. > While I can't discuss specific details of how an OFA implemented by a vendor looks, I can point you towards the faucet hardware documentation which lists vendors who support faucet: https://docs.faucet.nz/en/latest/vendors/index.html Note that today faucet can control the ASIC pipeline of Aruba, Noviflow and Cisco via OpenFlow TFM. Brad
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