Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote on 29/08/2012 17:15:37: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:07:26PM +0300, Liran Schour wrote: > > Is it possible to assign some external IDs to a port and then force the > > switch to send this IDs as a matchable field to the controller via OXM on > > each PACKET_IN message? > > In other words I am looking for a way to assign IDs per port and to be able > > to send these IDs to the controller as matchable fields. > > You could match on the port number in the flow table, then assign a > value to, say, the NXM registers or the OXM metadata field. When the > NXM packet-in format is in use (or OpenFlow 1.2+, once that is > supported), then those fields will be passed to the controller.
When I add such a flow to the flow table, the switch stops sending PACKET_IN messages to the controller. When I add the actions:...,controller to the flow then the switch sends the requested PACKET_IN message with the proper NXM registers value but it will continue to send PACKET_IN message on each new packet according to this flow. I want to create this flow with a low priority, means only if we do not have any other match act according to this flow. I tried to use table numbering but I see that if there is no match in table 0 the switch sends a PACKET_IN to the controller and not continue to search on other flow tables. How can I achieve such behavior? Thanks, - Liran _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
