Table entry timeout about p4-utils HOT 2 OPEN

I am not sure what are you asking.

I honestly never used tables with timeout, and thus I am not sure I will be able to help you with what you need. But lets try.

You have a p4 program with tables that have timeouts enabled right? And you say that they can only be configured with the normal CLI? you mean simple_switch_CLI? I guess that feature could be easily added to the controller if its not working.

What do you mean by intercept those packets? Is there any event being triggered when an entry expires? Or what are those packets you are expecting to intercept.

And last thing, we are actually working on adding P4runtime support to p4-utils, it is currently under junota branch: https://github.com/nsg-ethz/p4-utils/tree/junota

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Sorry.

Yes, the simple_switch_CLI.

When an entry expires its possible to observe in the switch log warnings like:

- Sending ageing notification for table 'MyIngress.forward' (0)
- Ageing entry 0 in table 'MyIngress.forward'

If I'm not mistaken the timeouts should also trigger some kind of message from the switch to the controller warning about the expired entry, correct?
By intercepting packets, I meant to intercept these messages at the controller where I would then proceed to delete the corresponding entries.

I will check the branch features, thank you very much @edgar-costa

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