Match Interface

Match is a runtime interface for configuring and populating match-action tables in an underlying packet processing pipeline. Match is pipeline and protocol agnostic, generalizing runtime control into the following 5 aspects:

• 'Match': Match conditions that this pipeline matches on
• 'Action': Actions that the pipeline can take. Exposed as black box functions
• 'Table': Tables that structure the pipeline, and their interconnections
• 'Config': Configuration of the pipeline, including dev, port and table attributes
• 'Headers': Header structures to concisely describe the parsing of packets

Match can be driven from either the command line tool (simply called 'match') or from an application. This repository includes a version of Open vSwitch that converts its userspace pipeline rules into an underlying pipeline via the match interface.

• Overview
• Build
• Match Tool
• OvS Integration
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3