On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:49:55PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:37:01PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: >> > I'm curious how you ended up laying this out. The OpenFlow spec says >> > that the extra space should be used as an vendor ID in the form of an >> > OUI. How did you reconcile this? >> >> You can probably get away with a lot if you make the most significant >> byte of the extra 32 bits nonzero, because OpenFlow only specifies the >> format of the other 24 bits if that byte is zero and leaves the rest of >> the space reserved for future standardization. >> >> But that's kind of a nasty thing to do. >> >> Have you considered allowing database configuration to specify what kind >> of attributes are expected and how to parse them? The configuration >> could be P4-based, for example. > > By the way, did you realize that you've been frozen? > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00003.html
And even worse, they misspelled my name. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
