I never said that we would develop such a patch. I said that we would take a patch to implement this.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:39:57AM +0000, Duankebo (Frank) wrote: > Oh, I mean when you will develop the patch contains this feature? > > -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] > 发送时间: 2015年3月24日 14:32 > 收件人: Duankebo (Frank) > 抄送: discuss@openvswitch.org; Lilin (pineorange, IT); Liyi (David, ITPL) > 主题: Re: [ovs-discuss] icmp packet > > It'll be ready when you send it. > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 06:22:56AM +0000, Duankebo (Frank) wrote: > > Great! Thank you! > > > > BTW: When the patch will be ready? Will you please send me a copy for test? > > > > > > 发件人: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] > > 发送时间: 2015年3月24日 11:46 > > 收件人: Duankebo (Frank) > > 抄送: Lilin (pineorange, IT); discuss@openvswitch.org; Liyi (David, > > ITPL) > > 主题: Re: 答复: [ovs-discuss] icmp packet > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:06:04AM +0000, Duankebo (Frank) wrote: > > > Thank you Ben. > > > > > > Yes, we can packetIn the ping request packet to Openflow controller, > > > which packet out a response then. > > > > > > But for every ping request packet, the controller have to > > > packetIn/packetOut the packet, imaging large scale datacenter where > > > there are many hosts > > > > > > which may send ping request to virtual address(means address don't > > > exist physically and need Controller/switch to process the icmp > > > request), > > > > > > the controller will become a choke point. > > > > > > So we are looking for better ways that the ping request can be responsed > > > by the vSwitch. > > > > It's a reasonable request, and this feature will be useful to other > > software too (including the upcoming OVN), so we'd take a patch to > > implement this. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
