On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:43:58PM +0000, Wang, Baoyuan wrote: > I understand that the SPAN/RSPAN support from physical switches does not have > filtering support. It seems make sense when traffic mirroring implemented in > physical switch hardware. Now with Open vSwitch, it might be better to > support filtering on SPAN/RSPAN to reduce the monitoring traffic bandwidth. > I do not have enough knowledge on the OVS design and implementation. So here > are my questions for OVS experts, > (1) Will filtering support to OVS port mirroring cause performance concern ? > (2) Is anyone strongly against this idea ? If yes, will you mind to explain. > (3) Is anyone interested to add this in OVS ? If someone will like to add > it, will OVS accept it ? > (4) Will any OVS expert like to give some high level idea about how hard this > could be done ? Some high level design idea will be very helpful.
This seems like something that could be implemented in OpenFlow without any specific OVS feature. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
