What version of Open vSwitch are you using?

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:29:22AM +0900, 허지민 wrote:
> Thank you for answering.
> 
> I'm not sure if I understood right.
> 
> The answer is saying that, if I don't change source or destination, bucket
> selection won't be redone?
> 
> Well, I am using group table for my project, and each bucket in the group
> has
> different weight. When I tested group table, I found out that after long
> term without networking, the selection has changed and send packets to
> different bucket.
> 
> How does weight of the bucket influence the selection???
> 
> 2016-08-02 2:10 GMT+09:00 Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 05:39:10PM +0900, 허지민 wrote:
> > > I am working on a project using group table select.
> > >
> > > I am figuring out how group table select one of the buckets that is added
> > > in the group.
> >
> > This is in the FAQ.
> >
> > ### Q: How does OVS divide flows among buckets in an OpenFlow "select"
> > group?
> >
> > A: In Open vSwitch 2.3 and earlier, Open vSwitch used the destination
> >    Ethernet address to choose a bucket in a select group.
> >
> >    Open vSwitch 2.4 and later by default hashes the source and
> >    destination Ethernet address, VLAN ID, Ethernet type, IPv4/v6
> >    source and destination address and protocol, and for TCP and SCTP
> >    only, the source and destination ports.  The hash is "symmetric",
> >    meaning that exchanging source and destination addresses does not
> >    change the bucket selection.
> >
> >    Select groups in Open vSwitch 2.4 and later can be configured to
> >    use a different hash function, using a Netronome extension to the
> >    OpenFlow 1.5+ group_mod message.  For more information, see
> >    Documentation/group-selection-method-property.txt in the Open
> >    vSwitch source tree.  (OpenFlow 1.5 support in Open vSwitch is still
> >    experimental.)
> >
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