Supported Actions; Scale Flow Numbers; Pipeline Support - Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring OpenFlow
• Layer 3 header
• Layer 4 header
• Ingress Interface

Supported Actions

The following is a list of supported actions:

Scale Flow Numbers

• The Cisco Nexus device supports up to 64 flows when the action is punt-to-controller.

Pipeline Support

OpenFlow policies can be applied to the ACL-table and the MAC-table. OpenFlow relates tables by means
of the 'pipeline' concept. The Cisco Nexus device supports two pipelines, 201 and 202. You can toggle the
pipeline between 201and 202 by entering the pipeline id command in the openflow-agent logical switch
configuration.
• Pipeline 201
• Pipeline 202
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◦ Destination MAC address
◦ Source IP address
◦ Destination IP address
◦ Layer 4 protocol
◦ Differentiated services Code Point (DSCP)
◦ Source port
◦ Destination port
◦ All the flows are added to the ACL-table. For example, ACL TCAM.
◦ ACL-table flows with the action as redirect or drop gets installed in the IFACL region of the
ACL-TCAM.
◦ ACL-table flows with the action punt-to-controller are installed in the SUP region of the
ACL-TCAM.
◦ Flows can be added to both the ACL-table(ACL TCAM) and the MAC-table(STM table).
◦ Flows with only L2-dest-mac and VLAN as the match criteria are installed in the MAC-table. The
remaining flows are installed in ACL-table
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