OpenvSwitch-pof is extended to support protocol oblivious forwarding (POF) based on OVS-DPDK 2.6.9, which makes OVS can match protocol fields in <offset, length> tuple way with more flexibility. And the DPDK we used is version 16.07, which can download it at dpdk.org.

In this stage, the OVS-POF only supports to connect with the remote controller to configure the flow entries, while other cli command can still works such as dump-flows. The controller we developed is ONOS, which is POF-enabled.

The OVS-POF follows the install steps of OVS. Start with OVS-DPDK, please read INSTALL.DPDK.md. For ease of use, we create two scripts (setup.sh and unsetup.sh) to automatically install or uninstall the OVS-POF.

After the DPDK confifuration (i.e., driver binding, hugepages), then it's easy for us in later running with the scripts.

# run the OVS-POF
sudo ./setup.sh

# connect the ONOS, port 6643
sudo ovs-vsctl set-controller br0 tcp:10.0.0.2:6643

# kill the OVS-POF
sudo ./unsetup.sh

Attention, when we first run the OVS-POF, please run sudo ./boot.sh first. If we have the problem as follows:

configure.ac:43: error: possibly undefined macro: LT_INIT
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Then run libtoolize --force to fix it.