Andrei,

Let say I write a network driver, how do i feed the packets into
openvswitch (that arrive in my physical port)?
Where is that initial entry point into openvswitch



On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Andrei Andone
<andrei.and...@softvision.ro>wrote:

>  Hi Gal,
>
> I'm not sure I understand what your application would do.
> Is your application supposed to capture all packets on an ethernet device
> and then feed them to openvswitch?
>
> As for the link for developers that you were asking about, here's what
> I've found myself:
> http://wangcong.org/blog/archives/2131
>
> Hope it helps,
> Andrei
>
>
> On 08/28/2013 03:54 PM, Gal Sagie wrote:
>
>
>  Hello,
>
>  I would like to know where is the insert point of a packet from the
> hardware/driver into openvswitch.
>  like if i want to build an application which polls packets and send them
> to openvswitch how do i do it?
>
>  From looking at the code i got to "netdev_frame_hook" but its assigned to
> "br_handle_frame_hook"
> and i cant find that in the code.
>
>  Please help me understand that and if anyone could link me to some
> writing for developers (if such exists) that would also be use full.
>
>
>  Thanks!
>  Gal.
>
>
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