I'm not sure I understand the question. Do you mean you just want some sort of flow ID through OpenFlow? What about the cookie field?
--Justin > On Dec 19, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Ashok Chippa <a.n.chi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just in case you missed, I'm resending my question: > > I am looking for an API to get a flow_id from OVS datapath, given bunch of > match fields... > In CLI this would look something like: "ovs-ofctl get-flowid flow"... Needed > for simplifying > the user app (FW in my case) that can just store the policy-rule using the > flow-id as an > index... Will also simplify the rule lookup when a packet is punted to the > app by the OVS > datapath... > > If there is no such thing available, is it ok for me to write one? If so, > could someone point > out to me place(s) in the code I should be focusing on... I have not looked > at the OVS > datapath code at all... So this will be the first for me... > > Appreciate anyone's help. Looking forward to a reply... > > Thanks, > Ashok > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
