On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:23:49PM +0530, Amal R Krishna wrote: > I am working on an project which involves Openvswitch 2.3.1. In my case I > am working on an environment when the controller is down. So I need to get > the source/dest ip/mac in the switches itself (i.e as soon as a packet is > received and when no flow can be requested to the controller.). Will I have > to edit the source code of Openvswitch? I think datapath/flow.c or > lib/flow.c should provide the values, but I am still unable to figure out a > solution. Kindly let me know which function gets activated as soon as a > packet arrives in a network device and whether I can extract the required > info and write it to a file from there in the switch. Thanks in Advance.
It seems like a better approach would be to implement a fallback OpenFlow controller, running on the same machine as OVS. Then you wouldn't need to modify OVS at all. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
