Re: [ovs-discuss] SPAN/RSPAN with the support of filtering

2014-01-16 Thread Wang, Baoyuan
/RSPAN with the support of filtering On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:51:52PM +, Wang, Baoyuan wrote: > Thank you for your response. If I understand you correctly, you were > suggesting to avoid OVS port mirroring and realize it with OpenFlow > controller. Sorry my knowledge of OpenFlo

Re: [ovs-discuss] SPAN/RSPAN with the support of filtering

2014-01-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:51:52PM +, Wang, Baoyuan wrote: > Thank you for your response. If I understand you correctly, you were > suggesting to avoid OVS port mirroring and realize it with OpenFlow > controller. Sorry my knowledge of OpenFlow is very shallow. Would > you mind to explain how t

Re: [ovs-discuss] SPAN/RSPAN with the support of filtering

2014-01-16 Thread Wang, Baoyuan
-Original Message- From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@nicira.com] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:46 PM To: Wang, Baoyuan Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] SPAN/RSPAN with the support of filtering On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:43:58PM +, Wang, Baoyuan wrote: > I underst

Re: [ovs-discuss] SPAN/RSPAN with the support of filtering

2014-01-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:43:58PM +, Wang, Baoyuan wrote: > I understand that the SPAN/RSPAN support from physical switches does not have > filtering support. It seems make sense when traffic mirroring implemented in > physical switch hardware. Now with Open vSwitch, it might be better to

[ovs-discuss] SPAN/RSPAN with the support of filtering

2014-01-16 Thread Wang, Baoyuan
I understand that the SPAN/RSPAN support from physical switches does not have filtering support. It seems make sense when traffic mirroring implemented in physical switch hardware. Now with Open vSwitch, it might be better to support filtering on SPAN/RSPAN to reduce the monitoring traffic ban