On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 08:35:39AM +0000, Majid Taleqani wrote: > i have a host that sends 100 tcp syn packets per second which every packet > has spoofed source IP and as a result they all will be sent to the POX > controller. as i monitor by Wireshark i see that the first 250s packetIns > have meaningful Bufffer ID value in packetin but then i see lots of > packetins which their Buffer id field equals to 4294967295 . i guess when a > packetin with buffer id = 4294967295 is sent to controller means that the > openvswitch port has overflowed and as a result the packet can not be > buffered in open vswitch and the whole packet is sent to controller. > is my guess right?
The OpenFlow specification covers the meaning of the buffer_id, and you understand it correctly. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
