On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Yi Sun <beyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/10/2012 05:26 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Yi Sun<beyo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> In openvswitch, is there something similar to the NF_HOOK? Bascially, I'm >>> looking for a method to register an action handling function that is >>> implemented by another kernel module. >> >> No, Open vSwitch is designed to be driven by userspace and arbitrary >> hooks prevent that from happening. It sounds like you want to use >> Netfilter instead. > > Just a double check--are you saying that I can use netfilter? I was trying > to filter on NF_BR_FORWARD but my callback hook did not get called at all. > During the debug, I try to find NF_HOOK calls in the openvswitch code, since > they used to be called from bridge module, But I did not find any of them. > Not sure if I have missed something or got some wrong ideas about the > netfilter code.
No, what you're trying to do is incompatible with the design of Open vSwitch. You should either reconsider your approach or use the bridge + netfilter, which is intended to be entirely kernel based. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
