Status of OpenFlow 1.3 support.

[vitalivanov]

Can anyone describe the status of openflow 1.3 protocol support?
What is done and what is to be done?

TIA

[stephenfin]

From what I can see, OFTest relies heavily on loxigen. That project has recently added support for 1.3.1 so OFTest needs to be updated accordingly. When/if this will happen though I'm unsure?

[capveg]

Fwiw, we've been using OFTest internally to do lots of OF-1.3 testing, so
all of the knobs are there. The problem is that OF1.3 is hard to test
without making assumptions about the packet processing pipeline (that is,
the order and capabilities of the match action tables). The set of tests
that you can run without making assumptions about the packet processing
pipeline is fairly trivial and not terribly useful.

OpenFlow in general hasn't really solved that problem - it's not really an
OFTest issue.

• Rob
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Stephen Finucane [email protected]
wrote:

From what I can see, OFTest relies heavily on loxigen
https://github.com/floodlight/loxigen. That project has recently added
support for 1.3.1 so OFTest needs to be updated accordingly. When/if this
will happen though I'm unsure?

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[jonstout]

I believe parsing/packing of table_feature_prop types have not yet been resolved. Other than that, I think everything is fine. floodlight/loxigen#198

[capveg]

True -- I had forgotten about that. Is this something that's significantly
an issue? If so, I might be able to get someone on our side to look into
it.

• Rob
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Jonathan Stout [email protected]
wrote:

I believe parsing/packing of table_feature_prop types have not yet been
resolved. Other than that, I think everything is fine.

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[jonstout]

There are two main cases were these message types are used in conformance style tests.

1. We generally check if a table claims support for a feature before we go on and test it.
2. The specification allows for tables to be configured using these messages.